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Dr. Julia Nitz

Dr. Julia Nitz is Assistant Lecturer for American Studies at the English Department at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg as well as managing director at the Centre for United States Studies (ZUSAS), organizing seminars, conferences and educational programmes.

Her current research concentrates mainly on the identity of American women during the Civil War and the postbellum periode and historiographic narratology. She is also interested in media and adaptation studies, film analysis and postmodern literature.

Julia was an undergraduate and graduate student of English and American Studies and Media and Communication Studies at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and also holds a certificate of German as a Foreign Language. Furthermore, she was a visiting student at Columbus State Community College (Ohio, USA) and at the University of Wales Swansea, and worked as Teaching  Assistant in Mulhouse (France).

Julia Nitz sucessfully completed her doctoral thesis in August 2009 with "summa cum laude" for which she was awarded the "Lutherurkunde" by Martin-Luther-University. She received a state-funded graduate scholarship for her PhD and a research fellowship from the German Historical Institute London. The monograph was published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier in 2010. Julia is also co-founder of an English reading circle and a passionate and nationally successful frisbee player.

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