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Diane Wei Lewis is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds affiliate appointments in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Performing Arts Department. Her work focuses on Japanese cinema, media, and their intersections with mass culture, modernity, and gender. Lewis earned her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago in 2011.
Her research examines the cultural politics of cinema in Japan, particularly during the interwar period, emphasizing emotion, labor, consumerism, and gender. Her first book, Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan (2019), explores how cinematic realism shaped public sentiment and gendered discourses in post-earthquake Japan. Current projects include studies on 1980s Japanese network technologies and the Proletarian Film League of Japan (Prokino).
Notable awards include the Washington University Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2017) and a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship (2009-2010). Her interdisciplinary approach combines historical and theoretical frameworks to analyze media’s role in shaping social and cultural dynamics.
