Education

2009 - Ph.D. - Indiana University, Bloomington, Comparative Literature and Modern German Literature and Culture

2000 - M.A. - Indiana University, Bloomington, Comparative Literature

1996 - B.A. - University of Louisville, magna cum laude, French, Spanish, and German

Teaching and Research Interests

• Literature, aesthetics, ethics, and politics circa 1800
• Recent social, political, and cultural theory, especially theories of the political
• History, theory, and representations of war

Courses Taught at Miami

• GER 102: Beginning German
• GER 252: The German-Jewish Experiences
• GER 301: German Language Through the Media
• GER 311: Passionate Friendships in German Literature
• GER 312: Coming of Age in German Life and Thought

Selected Publications

Book

• Figures of Natality: Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. 306 pp.

Articles

• “Politik als Virus: Gedanken eines amerikanischen Germanisten aus Kentucky zu Donald
  Trump.” literaturkritik.de, Vol. 11 (Nov. 2020) (Literary-political essay, 5,857 words)
  https://literaturkritik.de/politik-als-virus-essay-joseph-d-oneil,27347.html 

Presentations

• Participant in seminar: Participant in seminar: “The Duty of Art: Ethics and Empathy in Aesthetic Theory.” German Studies Association, Portland, OR, 2019.
• Commentator: Realism in the Age of Goethe and Its Legacy: Realism (GSA 2019)
• “Goethe with Sade? Principles of Republican Narratology.”
  Modern Languages Association, Chicago, January, 2019.
• Participant in seminar: “Race Theory in Classical German Thought.”
  German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, September, 2018.

Memberships in Professional Organizations

• German Studies Association
• Goethe Society of North America
• Lessing Society 

Languages

• English (native)
• French (oral and written proficiency)
• German (near-native)
• Latin (some reading proficiency)
• Scandinavian (for research)
• Spanish (near-native)