Aaron Kerner

Education

• Ph.D. Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• M.A. Cultural Studies, with distinction. University of Leeds, England
• B.A. Art History, honors in the major, honors in the senior seminar. University of California, Santa Cruz

Areas of Expertise

• Japan
• Aesthetics
• The ugly
• Visual Culture/Art History

Exhibitions

• Katsushige Nakahashi: The Depth of Memory at San Francisco Camerawork (January 3 – March 22, 2008)
• Reconstructing Memories: a discourse of traces and fragments (October 27th - December 13, 2006) at the University of Hawaii, Art Gallery
• Collapsing Histories: time, space, and memory (2002 - 2004) exhibited at UCSC, The Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall (Tokyo), Gallery ef (Tokyo)

Publications

• "The Alpha and the Omega: The Work of Katsuhige Nakahashi," Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 7-14.
• Interview with Katsushige Nakahashi, “The Depth of Memory: An Interview with Katsushige Nakahashi,” trans. Shoko Okuda, Camerawork vol. 34, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 21-27.
• Representing the Catastrophic (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).
• Reconstructing Memories, exhibition catalogue (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Art Gallery, 2006).
• “Of Child’s Play and the Japanese Catastrophic Imagination: Katsushige Nakahashi’s Zero Project and On the Day Project – Runit Dome,” in Nakahashi Katsushige: ZEROS - Interacting Memories, exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Asahi, 2006), 54 – 84.
• “Gojira vs. Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories,” in Mark Franko, ed. Ritual and Event: interdisciplinary perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2006), 109 – 124.
• “Hideaki Anno’s Love and Pop: Enjo-kosai and the Shojo Economy,” in Masami Toku, ed. Shojo Manga: Girl Power! Girls’ Comics from Japan, exhibition catalogue (Chico, CA: Flume Press at Chico State University, 2005): 32 – 35.
• Angela Kelly and Aaron Kerner, “The Scent of Positive Lives: (Re)Memorializing Our Loved Ones,” Qualitative Inquiry vol. 10, no. 5 (October 2004): 767-787. Download PDF
• Aaron Kerner, “What’s Real About It? Adolescent Female Sexuality in Thirteen,” American Sexuality magazine vol. 3, no. 4 (August 2005). Download PDF