Editorships

Women and U.S. Politics, edited by Julia Nitz and Axel Schäfer, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020.

Intercontinental Crosscurrents. Women’s Networks across Europe and the Americas, edited by Julia Nitz, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and Theresa Schön, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016.

Towards a Historiographic Narratology/Auf dem Weg zu einer Narratologie der Geschichtsschreibung, edited by Julia Nitz and Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, SPIEL vol. 30, no. 1, 2011.

Katalog zur Bibliothek des halleschen Anglisten Hans Weyhe (1920–1953 Professor an der Universität Halle) zusammengestellt und mit einem Vorwort von Julia Nitz, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2011.

Anglistentag Halle 2006 Proceedings, edited by Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Nitz, vol. XXVIII, WVT, 2007.

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)

Editorships