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