David C. Stahl
Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Background
Stahl studied modern Japanese literature at UCLA, Yale University and The Tokyo Institute of Technology, and he has taught Japanese Studies courses at Middlebury College, D艒shisha University, Williams College and 91社区. His major publications include: The Burdens of Survival:艑oka Sh艒hei鈥檚 Writings on the Pacific War (2003), Imag(in)ing the War in Japan: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film (2010; co-edited with Mark B. Williams), Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film (2018) and Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film (2020).
Education
- PhD Yale University
- MA, University of California Los Angeles
- BA, University of California Santa Barbara
Research Interests
- Modern Japanese literature and cinema
- Asia Pacific War experience, memory, history and artistic representation
- Psychoanalytic and trauma studies
- Marxist cultural studies and critical narrative studies
- Literary and filmic criticism
- Japanese-English literary translation
Teaching Interests
- Modern Japanese literature and cinema
- Artistic representations of Asia Pacific War memory and experience
- Unresolved issues from modern was in Asia
- Social trauma and its psychosocial aftereffects/afterlives
- Dissociation, narrative memory and recovery
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