Julia Nitz

PD Dr. Julia Nitz is an Assistant Professor of Anglo-American Cultural Studies at the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg). Her research addresses intersections of gender, media, and historiography in 19th-century America, while also engaging postmodern literary theory and transatlantic cultural networks.

• Current affiliation: Muhlenberg Center for American Studies, Halle
• Research focus: Women’s identity, media history, postmodern literature
• Founding co-editor of the transatlantic women’s networks platform crosscurrents.uni-halle.de

Her work bridges narratology and historical discourse, exemplified by her 2011 monograph on historiographic narratology and a 2013 article interrogating narrative’s role in shaping historical artifacts. Recent projects emphasize digital humanities approaches through crosscurrents.uni-halle.de.