Research Expertise and Interest

East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory

Research Description

Dan O’Neill received his Ph.D. from Yale University.  His research interests include modern thought and literature (Japan and Taiwan), gender and queer theory, and the intersections of environmental humanities, cinema studies and media theory.  His current book project traces an emergent inter-medial history of the 3.11 disasters.  His articles have appeared in Japan Forum, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.