Tatiana Sulovska
Biography
Supported by the Quinn Fellowship, Tatiana Sulovska is working to complete her dissertation with the UCLA Department of History in the field of modern Japanese history. Under the working title “Art as Guerilla Warfare: Cultural Production Surrounding the Japanese Red Army as Conceptualization of Political Violence,” Tatiana’s dissertation project examines film, literature, and cultural criticism as frames for rethinking the concepts of state and political violence in the late nineteen sixties and seventies Japan. Recently, she was a presenter at the 2024 ASCJ (Asian Studies Conference Japan) in Tokyo at Sophia University. Her fieldwork in Japan in 2022-2023 was funded by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA (Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad) fellowship. Tatiana is a graduate of an intensive ten-month program in Japanese language study at the Inter-University Center in Yokohama, holds a JD with concentration in international law, and an MA in East Asian Studies.
Subfield
Twentieth Century Japan
Twentieth Century Japanese Literature and Film
Modern Southeast Asian History - Southeast Asia under WWII Japanese Occupation
Research
Postwar Japanese avant-garde art, literature, and filmmaking, with current focus on pink film by Adachi Masao and Wakamatsu Kōji, as well as works by Ōshima Nagisa and Terayama Shūji; (experimental) critical theory; state violence and political violence by non-state actors and their theorizations in the decolonization era; dissent; radical direct action; Japanese Red Army; postwar cultural criticism; global revolutionary imaginary
Collaborators
Dissertation Committee Members:
William Marotti, Professor, UCLA Department of History (Chair)
Michael Emmerich, Professor, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Geoffrey Robinson, Professor, UCLA Department of History
Seiji Lippit, Professor, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Christopher Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Degrees
- University of California, Los Angeles; PhD Program Student, Department of History, Japan Field, September 2017 – present
- C. Phil. History, UCLA, 2020
- M.A. History, UCLA, 2020
- M.A. East Asian Studies, UCLA, 2017
- J.D., International Law Honors Concentration, Hosftra Law, NY, 2015
- Magister, International Relations and Diplomacy, Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, Matej Bel University, Slovakia
- ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
- University of Ljublana, Faculty of Arts; Summer School in Philosophy with the Ljubljana Lacanian School: Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič, and Mladen Dolar; August 2019
- Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan; 10-month Intensive Japanese Language Study Program, September 2018 – June 2019 & Summer Program, Japanese Language Study, June – August 2017
- School of Japanese at Middlebury College, Vermont; Summer Immersion Language Program in Japanese, June – August 2018
- UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, Tokyo & Los Angeles; Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities, August 2016 – June 2017
- East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China; Exchange Student, Law, Fall 2014
- Cuba Field Study Program, Hofstra Law, Havana; Comparative Family Law, April 2014
- Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; Introduction to International Commercial Dispute Resolution & Alternative Dispute Resolution in Information Society, May – June 2014
