Julia Hartley

Dr. Julia Hartley is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow, since 2023. Her research bridges French, Italian, and Iranian literary traditions, with a focus on cross-cultural representation and adaptation.

• BA, MA, and PhD in French and Italian Literature (University of Oxford, 2016)
• MA in Iranian Studies (SOAS, 2017)
• Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Warwick

Her research explores:

• Dante’s Divine Comedy and Proustian modernism
• 19th-century French Orientalism and its colonial entanglements
• Gender and race in opera, historiography, and travel-writing
• Persian-French literary translation dynamics
• Decadence and exoticism in global contexts

Recent publications include co-edited journals and monographs on Dante-Proust analogies and French Orientalism. Her scholarship intersects with BBC Radio collaborations and creative media outreach.

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
• BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker nomination

She supervises projects on 19th/20th-century French literature, Dante, cross-cultural representation, and Middle Eastern-Western literary exchanges.