About
Julia is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and a certificate student at the Digital Studies Institute. She holds a MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, a BA in Literature from the Honors College at American University, and was recently a visiting PhD student at the Universidade de São Paulo's Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. Recent courses taught include Literature 250: Literature, Film, and Globalization (taught at American University), Comparative Literature 122: Left on Read–Contemporary Narratives of Unrequited Love, Literature 367: Latin American Literature + the City (taught at American University), Comparative Literature 122: Art Heaux + Theory Bros, English 125: Paper Pushing in Late Capitalism, FTVM 202: Intro to Digital Studies, and FTVM 236: Art of Film.
She has most recently edited a volume of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation titled "Brazil with an 'S,'" a collection of contemporary Brazilian poetry and prose. Her article "Bottled Up: Index, Capture, and the Case for Perfume as Media" is forthcoming in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Field(s) of Study
- irony + sincerity
- feminism + postfeminism
- first person narration
- postcritique
- creative writing
- autotheory + autofiction
- digital studies
- affect theory
- ecocriticism
- globalization + media circulation
Languages
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- English
- French
