He has published in Studies in American Indian Literatures, American Studies, and the edited collection Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art. After earning his PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Joseph enjoyed one year at the University of Illinois as a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian studies followed by two years at UCLA as an Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English and in the program for the study of Cultures in Transnational Perspective.