Networks

Memberships

Transatlantic Women (Europe)
American Historical Association
Southern Historical Association (U.S.)
European Study Group of 19^th Century American Literature
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
Harriet Beecher Stowe Society (U.S.)
Association of Literature on Screen (Wales)
Association for Adaptation Studies (UK)
European Narratology Network
International Society for the Study of Narrative
International Autobiography Association (IABA)
Deutscher Anglistenverband

Founding Member and Managing Administrator

Intercontinental Crosscurrents: Women’s (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (www.crosscurrents.uni-halle.de)
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Founding Member

Netzwerk Mitteldeutschland (Kooperation der amerikanistischen Arbeitsbereiche der Universitäten Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, Jena, Erfurt und Halle)
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Board of Directors

Mühlenberg-Zentrum für Amerikastudien

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.