PD Dr. Julia Boll

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Biographical Information

Julia Boll currently covers the professorship of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 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 from the University of Konstanz.

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 University of Konstanz as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to research the representation of the bare life on stage, a project for which, as PI, she secured funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2020 to 2022, she was Associate Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) for British Studies at the University of Hamburg. From 2023-2024, she covered an akademische Oberratsstelle at the University of Bielefeld.

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, UC Dublin, Manchester Met. Univ.), a founding member of the Scottish Literature and Culture Network (https://scotlitcult.blogspot.com/), 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.

PD Dr. Julia Boll

Geisteswissenschaften/Anglistik

Address
Universitätsstraße 12
45141 Essen
Room
R12 S04 H08
Phone
+49 201 183 3427
E-Mail
julia.boll@uni-due.de
Office hours
Tuesdays 15:00-16:00 (not 21st May)- if you can, please drop me a quick line so I know you're coming to see me!

Functions

  • Vertretung einer Professur, Anglistik: Britische und Anglophone Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft - British and Anglophone Literature and Culture

  • Adaptation Studies
  • Cultural History & Theory
  • Early and Medieval, Early Modern, Modern, & Contemp. Theatre & Drama
    (UK, IRE, North America)
  • Early English Cultures & Contemporary Nostalgic Nationalism
  • Ethics in Literature & Theatre
  • Futurities
  • Literature & Science
  • Monster Theory & Contemporary Verse Novels
  • Performativity of the Commons
  • Scottish Modernism

Monographs:

Boll, Julia. The New War Plays. From Kane to Harris. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

 

Peer-reviewed Articles:

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 (Special Issue: British Identities Medialised, eds. Dorothea Flotow, Sarah Herbe, Markus Oppolzer, Elisabeth Schober) 31.1 (in press 2024), 41-58.

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.

Boll, Julia. "Desiring Walls. Fantasies of Containment and Reimagined British Pasts." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (Special Issue: British Borders, eds. Joachim Frenk & Lena Steveker) 70.2 (2022), 175-187. DOI 10.1515/zaa-2022-2061.

Boll, Julia. "The Sum of Our Parts: the Voices of the Human Genre Project." European Journal of English Studies (Special Issue: Poetry, Science, Technology, eds. Irmtraud Huber & Wolfgang Funk) 22.3 (2018), 317-330. DOI 10.1080/13825577.2018.1513702.

Boll, Julia. "Is Knowledge Performative? Science/Stage: an Experiment in Performance Lectures." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Special Issue: Doing Science, eds. Nina Engelhardt & Julia Hoydis) 42.3 (2017), 282-295. DOI 10.1080/03080188.2017.1345069.

Boll, Julia. "The Sacred Guest and the Ungrievable Sacrifice: communitas at the Theatre." Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (Special Issue: Theatre & Mobility, eds. Kerstin Schmidt, Nathalie Aghoro, Nicole Schneider) 5.1 (2017), 126-139. DOI 10.1515/jcde-2017-0010.

Boll, Julia. "Between Homeland and Exile: Witnessing the 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.

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.

Boll, Julia. "The Sacred Dragon in the Woods: on Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem." FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts (Special Issue: Sacred & Sacrilegious, eds. Barbara Vrachnas & James Leveque) 14 (2012), no pag. forumjournal.org/article/view/633.

 

Other Articles:

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.

Boll, Julia. "'That Slight Edge of Displacement': On Contemporary Theatre in Scotland." Edinburgh Review 133 (2011), 88-97. ISSN 0267-6672.

 

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters:

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.

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.

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.

Boll, Julia. "Caryl Churchill's Contemporary War Drama." The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century English and American (US) War Literature. Eds. Adam Piette & Mark Rawlinson, Edinburgh UP, 2012,
479-489.

Boll, Julia. "Harry Potter's Archetypal Journey." Heroism in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. Eds. Katrin Berndt & Lena Steveker, Ashgate, 2010, 85-104.

 

Other Book Chapter:

Boll, Julia. "Nostalgia and the Return to the Present." Forgetting. Eds. Giovanni Galizia & David Shulman, Magnes Press, 2015, 93-95.

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.

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.

Boll, Julia. "Introduction." War: Interdisciplinary Investigations. The Continuing Challenges to Communities. Ed. Julia Boll, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008, 1-3.

 

Edited Collections

Boll, Julia & Bolaki, Stella (eds.). Northern Light: New Writing 2010-11. Scottish Universities' International Summer School, 2011.

Boll, Julia (ed.). War: Interdisciplinary Investigations. The Continuing Challenges to Communities. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008.

Boll, Julia, Simon Makhali, Ian Watson (eds.). newleaf. Fiction and Poetry. Vols. 16 –28. newleaf press, 2003-2012.

 

Selected Reviews:

"Marissia Fragkou. Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Politics, Affect, Responsibility. Methuen, 2019." Review in Contemporary Theatre Review, 30.4 (2020). DOI 10.1080/10486801.2020.1813442.

"Marilena Zaroulia & Philip Hager (eds.) Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance. Inside/Outside Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015." Review in Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. 8.1 (2020), 177-180. DOI 10.1515/jcde-2020-0013.

"Sara Soncini. Forms of Conflict. Contemporary Wars on the British Stages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014." Review in Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English 7.1 (2019), 139-143.
DOI 10.1515/jcde-2019-0010.

"Kerstin Frank & Caroline Lusin (eds.). Finance, Terror, and Science on Stage. Current Public Concerns in 21st-Century British Drama. Narr Francke Attempto, 2017." Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 29.2 (2018), 168-169.

"Gad Guterman. Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law. A Theatre of Undocumentedness. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014" and "Emma Cox. Theatre & Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014". Combined review in Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English 6.2 (2018), 407-413. DOI 10.1515/jcde-2018-0011.

"Vicky Angelaki (ed.). Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013." Review in Journal of Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English 3.2 (2015), 345-49.
DOI 10.1515/jcde-2015-0029.

  • 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 and Theatre
  • Modernism & Postmodernism
  • Performance Studies
  • Poetry
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Scottish Romanticism, Modernism, Contemporary
  • Verse Novels