Jack Wilson

Jack Wilson serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Occidental College, appointed in 2025. His academic credentials include a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Japanese History from the University of California, Los Angeles.

His educational background features:

• B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
• M.A., Columbia University
• Ph.D. in Japanese History, University of California, Los Angeles (2025)

Wilson specializes in modern Japanese intellectual history, examining intersections of poetics, philosophy, and politics through postwar movements like the Waste Land (Arechi) poetry group. His research integrates modernism, critical theory, and psychoanalytic frameworks to analyze cultural-political dynamics in 20th-century Japan, with particular focus on literary and aesthetic expressions of political thought.

His recent Boundary2 publication demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach connecting literary analysis, political theory, and extreme music subcultures, reflecting broader scholarly trends in examining non-Western modernist movements through transnational cultural lenses.