Dan O'Neill Joins BCNM Executive Committee
Associate Professor Dan O'Neill has joined BCNM's Executive Committee. Dan teaches courses in Meiji print culture and literature, Taishô aesthetics, and postwar intellectual history and popular culture. His research interests include the novel in comparative perspective, global modernisms, and critical theory (particularly in relation to affect and aesthetics). Recent and forthcoming publications include a study of Mori Ôgai and the bildungsroman (Japan Forum, 2006), an analysis of Natsume Sôseki’s theory of tragic pleasure (Discourse, 2008), and a book chapter on the memories of moving bodies in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (I. B. Tauris, 2009). He is currently completing a book titled Ghostly Remains: Affect and the Afterlife of Reading in Modern Japan. Welcome Dan!