Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Boll
Universitätsprofessorin
Erzabt-Klotz-Str. 1, Salzburg
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Biographical Information
Julia Boll is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Salzburg. She studied English and German literature and political science at the University of Bremen and John Moore’s University Liverpool, holds a doctorate in English literature and in drama from the University of Edinburgh, and a habilitation in English Studies from the University of Konstanz.
She taught literature and theatre at the University of Edinburgh, was director of the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, and worked for the Edinburgh Review. In 2013, she joined the University of Konstanz as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to research the representation of the bare life on stage. From 2020 to 2022, she was Interim Professor for British Studies at the University of Hamburg. From 2023-2024, she covered an akademische Oberratsstelle at the University of Bielefeld. In 2024 she was Interim Professor for British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and in 2025, for English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn.
She is a co-convener of the International Federation for Theatre Research’s political performances working group ( https://iftr.org/political-performances/), a founding member of the Scottish Literature and Culture Network ( https://scotlitcult.blogspot.com/), a founding member and co-convenor of the Humanities Pedagogy Workshop Series (Univ. of Konstanz, UC Dublin, Manchester Met. Univ.) and was on the Board of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) for six 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. Her second book, “Scapegoats, Devils, Outlaws, Witches: Bare Life’s Lives on the Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Stage”, is under review.
Research Interests
- Adaptation Studies
- Critical and Cultural History & Theory
- Early + Medieval, Early Modern, Modern, & Contemp. Theatre, Drama & Performance (UK, IRE, NA)
- Early English Cultures & Contemporary Nostalgic Nationalism
- Ethics in Literature & Theatre
- Futurities
- Literature & Science
- Monster Theory & Queer Poetics in Contemporary Verse Novels
- Performativity of the Commons
- Popular Culture, Media & Transmedial Studies
- Scottish Modernist Women Writers
- War Studies
Teaching
(⧖ = historical and contemporary)
- 14th -21st Century Literature & Culture
- Adaptation Studies
- Ancient, Early Modern, Modern, and Contemporary Theatre & Drama
- British Romanticism
- Early English/Anglo-Saxon Literature
- Ethics in Literature & Theatre ⧖
- Gender & Queer Studies ⧖
- Literary & Cultural Theory ⧖
- Literature & Science ⧖
- Literature & Theatre of War ⧖
- Medieval Literature & Theatre
- Modernism & Postmodernism
- Performance Studies
- Poetry ⧖
- Postcolonial Studies
- Scottish Early Modernism, Romanticism, Modernism, Contemporary
- Verse Novels ⧖
Publications
Monographien
(1) Boll, Julia. The New War Plays. From Kane to Harris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. DOI 10.1057/9781137330024.
Artikel (peer-reviewed)
(10) Boll, Julia. “Unbound: The Ethics and Entanglements of Moll Cutpurse.” Anglistik 36.3 (forthcoming winter 2025): Focus on Early Modern Futures.
(9) Boll, Julia. “‘The Village Green Preservation Society’: The Kinks, the Bake Off, and the Performativity of the Commons.” Journal for the Study of British Culture 31.1 (2024), 41-58. DOI 10.33675/JSBC/2024/1/6.
(8) Boll, Julia & Joshua Edelman. “The Affective Underpinnings of British Toryism: Nostalgia, Futurity, and the Performativity of the Commons.” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 12 (2023), 52-73. ISSN 2510-3059. Rated 3* at Manchester Metropolitan’s institutional pre-REF 2024.
(7) Boll, Julia. “Desiring Walls. Fantasies of Containment and Reimagined British Pasts.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 70.2 (2022), 175-187. DOI 10.1515/zaa-2022-2061.
(6) Boll, Julia. “The Sum of Our Parts: the Voices of the Human Genre Project.“ European Journal of English Studies 22.3 (2018), 317-330. DOI 10.1080/13825577.2018.1513702.
(5) Boll, Julia. “Is Knowledge Performative? Science/Stage: an Experiment in Performance Lectures.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 42.3 (2017), 282-295. DOI 10.1080/03080188.2017.1345069.
(4) Boll, Julia. “The Sacred Guest and the Ungrievable Sacrifice: communitas at the Theatre.” Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English 5.1 (2017), 126-139. DOI 10.1515/jcde-2017-0010.
(3) Boll, Julia. “Between Homeland and Exile: Witnessing homo sacer at the Heart of Hotel Medea.” Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English 2.1 (2014), 26-37. DOI 10.1515/jcde-2014-0003.
(2) Boll, Julia. “Last Girl Standing: on Zinnie Harris’s War Plays.” International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen 6.1 (2013), 37-53. ISSN 2046-5602.
(1) Boll, Julia. “The Sacred Dragon in the Woods: on Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem.” FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts 14 (2012), no pag. forumjournal.org/article/view/633.
Weitere Artikel
(2) Boll, Julia. “L’homo sacer et le théâtre: entre Richard II de Shakespeare et Le Dernier Caravansérail du Théâtre du Soleil.” In: Grief. Revue sur les mondes du droit. 5 (2018), 105-119. DOI 10.3917/grief.181.0105.
(1) Boll, Julia. “‘That Slight Edge of Displacement’: On Contemporary Theatre in Scotland.” Edinburgh Review 133 (2011), 88-97. ISSN 0267-6672.
Buchkapitel (peer-reviewed)
(5) Boll, Julia. “Lost at Sea: Caroline Bergvall’s Mapping of Early Medieval and Contemporary Maritime Migration.” Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities. Eds. Eva C. Karpinski & Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Routledge, 2023, 49-64. DOI 10.4324/9781003435839-4.
(4) Boll, Julia. “Entanglements: Transaction and Intra-Action with the Devil in How to Hold Your Breath.” Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Eds. Mireia Aragay, Cristina Delgado García, Martin Middeke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 217-237. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_11.
(3) Boll, Julia. “Making the Audience Cry: Witnessing Violence and the Ethics of Compelled Empathy.” World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices. Eds. Mireia Aragay, Paola Botham, Avraham Oz, Lloyd Peters, José Ramón Prado, Brill, 2020, 83-97. DOI 10.1163/9789004430990_008.
(2) Boll, Julia. “Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill.” The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American (US) War Literature. Eds. Adam Piette & Mark Rawlinson, Edinburgh UP, 2012, 479-489. DOI 10.1515/9780748653911-055.
(1) Boll, Julia. “Harry Potter’s Archetypal Journey.” Heroism in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Eds. Katrin Berndt & Lena Steveker, Ashgate, 2010, 85-104. DOI 10.4324/9781315586748.
Weitere Buchkapitel
(4) Boll, Julia. “Nostalgia and the Return to the Present.” Forgetting: An Interdisciplinary Conversation. Eds. Giovanni Galizia & David Shulman, Magnes Press, 2015, 93-95. ISBN 978-965-493-847-1.
(3) Boll, Julia. “The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage.” The New Order of War. Ed. Bob Brecher, Rodopi, 2010, 167-180. DOI 10.1163/9789042029422_011.
(2) Boll, Julia. “‘The Spoils of War’: The Adaptability of Euripides’ Women of Troy for the Representation of War and Conflict on the Contemporary Stage.” Adaptations – Performing across Media and Genre. Eds. Eckart Voigts-Virchow & Monika Maria Pietrzak-Franger, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009, 223-236.
(1) Boll, Julia. “Introduction.” War: Interdisciplinary Investigations. The Continuing Challenges to Communities. Ed. Julia Boll, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008, 1-3.
