English and American Studies (MLU)
julia.nitz@amerikanistik.uni-halle.de
Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Studies ath the Institute for English and American Studies of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Co-founder of the Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network for the study of transatlantic women’s networks in the long nineteenth century
Research focus: Cultural History of the United States with a focus on the nineteenth-century South; Enslavement and its Commemoration and Enlightenment Thought; Women and Health in the Long Nineteenth Century Women’s Transatlantic Networks; Caribbean Memory Culture; British Historiography of the Eighteenth Century
Publications (selection)
- Remembering Enslavement in 21st-century French Seaport Museums, in: Dependency and Slavery Studies, ed. Sofia Buitrago et al., Berlin: De Gruyter [forthcoming]
- Frauen in der Debatte um Antiintellektualismus in den USA: Historiographische Revision am Beispiel autobiographischer Schriften aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, in: Antiintellektualismus: Ein unwahrscheinlicher Klassiker, ed. Nils Steffenson and Andreas Hübner Kiel: Universitätsverlag Kiel 2024, pp. 41-60
- Racist Feminism(s): White Southern Women’s Post-Civil War Commemoration and Emancipation Culture, in: WiN: The EAAS Women’s Network Journal 3 (2022)
- Transatlantic Cultural Autobiographies as Sites of Nation Building: The Relational Selves of Mary Russell Mitford and Rebecca Harding Davis, in: Connecting Women: National and International Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century, Washington: Smithsonian Institute Scholarly Press 2021, pp. 207-227
- Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2020
- Ed., with Axel Schäfer: Women and US Politics: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. American Studies – A Monograph Series, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2020
- Ed., with Sandra H. Petrulionis, and Theresa Schön: Intercontinental Crosscurrents: Women’s Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century. European Views of the United States, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2015