PD Dr. Julia Nitz

Member of Board

Julia Nitz is Assistant Professor of Anglo-American Cultural Studies and affiliated with Halle’s Muhlenberg Center for American Studies. Her research focuses on identity issues of 19th-century American women as well as on media history and analysis, and postmodern literature. As Julia Nitz is also concerned with narratology in relation to historiography, she published the monograph Towards a Historiographic Narratology / Auf dem Weg zu einer Narratologie der Geschichtsschreibung (2011) and articles such as “History, a Literary Artifact? – The Travelling Concept of Narrative in / on Historiographic  Discourse” (2013). She has recently co-founded a platform for research on transatlantic women’s networks (crosscurrents.uni-halle.de).