Joseph D. O'Neil

Education

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

Teaching and Research Interests

• German literature and culture, 1750-1832
• Comparative European literary and cultural studies
• Political theory
• Literature and philosophy

Courses Taught

• GER 102: Beginning German
• GER 231: Enchanted Worlds: Folk and Literary Fairy Tales
• GER 252: The German-Jewish Experiences
• GER 301: German Language Through the Media
• GER 311: Coming of Age in German Life and Thought
• GER 312: Passionate Friendships in German Literature, Film, and Culture

Selected Publications

Book

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

Articles

• "'Aufklärung' as Vocation in Georg Forster’s 'Cook, der Entdecker': Reality, Mirror, or Rorschach Test?" Lessing Yearbook 50 (2024): 121-130.
• "Arendt und kein Ende? Representing the Political in Recent Work on Hannah Arendt." (Review essay.) German Quarterly 96.4 (2023): 571-585.
• “Selfhood, Sovereignty, and Public Space in Die italienische Reise, ‘Das Rochus-Fest zu Bingen,’ and Dichtung und Wahrheit, Book Five.” Goethe Yearbook 24 (2017): 105-124.
• “Reading the Political in or against Romantic Interdisciplinarity.” Invited contribution to Forum on Romanticism. German Quarterly 89.2 (2016): 355-7.
• "Ghostly Births: The Specter of Romanticism and the Future of Capitalism.” Seminar 50.3 (2014): 232-52.

Professional Organization Memberships

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