Associate Professorship (Vertretungsprofessur) for Julia Boll
We congratulate Julia Boll who has joined the Department of Language, Literature, and Media II at the University of Hamburg, as Associate Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) for British Studies.
Julia studied English and German literature and political science at the University of Bremen and John Moore's University Liverpool and holds a doctorate in English literature and in drama from the University of Edinburgh. She taught literature and theatre at the University of Edinburgh for five years, was director of the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School and worked for the Edinburgh Review. In 2013, she joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Postdoctoral Fellow to research the representation of the bare life on stage.
She is a co-convener of the International Federation for Theatre Research's political performances working group, a founding member and co-convenor of the Humanities Pedagogy Workshop Series (Univ. of Konstanz, Univ. College Dublin, Manchester Metropolitan Univ.), and has been on the Board of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) for four years.
Her work is located in the area of ethics, politics, literature and theatre. Her monograph "The New War Plays" was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.
We wish her all the best!