Research

My research interests consist in:

Anglo-American women’s and gender studies and transatlantic women’s networks.
Literary reception history in the Anglo-American world and life writing
Cultural history of the USA in the 19th century with a focus on the Southern States
Anglophone Caribbean
Cognitive narratology and historiography (across media and genres)
Adaptation studies/film theory and analysis
British monarchy, national memory spaces, and museum narratives in the United Kingdom

Julia Nitz is Associate professor of Anglo-American Cultural Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She has served as Executive Director at the Center for American Studies and is co-founder of the Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network for the study of transatlantic women’s networks in the long nineteenth century (crosscurrents.uni-halle.de).

Her research focusses on the American Civil War, women’s life writing, intertextual cultural studies, historiographic and museum narratology as well as Anglophone (Caribbean) film and adaptation studies. Her publications include Georg III. Rezeption und Konstruktion in den britischen Medien (1990–2006) (WVT, 2010), Towards a Historiographic Narratology (2011), and with Sandra H. Petrulionis and Theresa Schön, an edited volume on Intercontinental Crosscurrents: Women’s Networks across Europe and the Americas (2016).

Her most recent monograph Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women (LSUP, 2020) establishes the extent to which literature offered a means of exploring ideas and convictions about class, gender, and racial hierarchies in the Civil War-era South.

Apart from her interest in British and American cultural studies, Julia is a passionate player of Ultimate Frisbee and an ardent reader.

PD Dr. Julia Nitz

Amerikanistik und Transatlantikstudien (American Literary and Cultural Studies and Transatlantic Studies)

Research

My research interests consist in: