Research Bio

Dan O’Neill is a scholar of Japanese literature and material culture, East Asian media and cinema with projects ranging from the bildungsroman in Meiji culture; affect theory and colonial modernity; ecocriticism and multispecies precarity; slow cinema, ambient horror, documentary cinema, photography and animation.

With a focus on the intersection of environmental humanities, cinematic studies, and media theory, his current book project traces an emergent inter-medial history of the 3.11 disasters.  His articles have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Japan Forum, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.

Research Expertise and Interest

East Asian literatures and cinema, environmental humanities and media theory