Chad Diehl

Diehl specializes in the history, literature, and film of Japan. He has published three books, including a monograph, edited volume, and collection of translated poetry, and several articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. His work has also appeared in popular publications such as TIME magazine. He has a forthcoming chapter, “Visualizing Nagasaki,” in which he explores how the intertextuality of a set of photographs, paintings, and poetry have shaped generational memory of the atomic bombings. In Spring Semester 2026, Diehl is teaching MDST 3504, Japanese Cinema in Global Context, with a focus on how visual media in Japan since the end of the Second World War, especially film, graphic novels, and paintings, have reflected and shaped understandings of nuclear memory.