Julia Wurr
Institute of English and American Studies (» Postal address)
Julia Wurr
Institute for English and American Studies
Literary and Cultural Studies
JProf. Dr. Julia Wurr
Postcolonial Studies
Research Interests
Postcolonial Studies / Postkoloniale Studien
Procreation and the Postcolonial / Fortpflanzung und Postkolonialismus
Surrogacy and Literature / Literatur und Leihmutterschaft
The Postcolonial Middle East and North Africa Region / Postkolonialismus in der MENA-Region
Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism / Orientalismus und Neo-Orientalismus
Literature and Precarity / Literatur und Prekarität
Academic CV
Since 10/2021 Junior Professor for Postcolonial Studies, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
09/2019–09/2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Trier
04/2016–08/2019 Doctoral Researcher, International Research Training Group "Diversity," University of Trier
10/2011–07/2012 Graduate Research Student, Jesus College, Oxford University
02–07/2010 Erasmus Student, University of Liège
10/2007–06/2015 Studies of English, French and International Relations, University of Trier
Publications
Monograph
Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions in English, French and German Language Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Book Chapters and Articles
"Science and Biocapitalist Reproduction: Commercial Surrogacy in Joanne Ramos' The Farm." In preparation.
"Childlessness and the Female Nigerian Bildungsroman." In preparation.
"Neo-Orientalism and the Poetics of Insecurity in Bodyguard." Sicherheit und Differenz in historischer Perspektive/Security and Difference in Historical Perspective. Ed. Sigrid Ruby and Anja Krause. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2022. 191-212.
"L’Orientalisme, le 'Printemps arabe' et le dialogue interculturel sur le marché littéraire européen." Dialogues interculturels à l’époque coloniale et postcoloniale. Représentations littéraires et culturelles – Orient, Maghreb et Afrique occidentale (de 1830 à nos jours). Ed. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink and Sarga Moussa. Paris: Éditions Kimé, 2019. 165-84.
Presentations
3 Nov. 2022. “Surrogate Knowledge: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Partial Knowledge and Knowing Partially in Fictional Representations of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy.” The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on the Limits of Research, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover.
8 Sept. 2022. “Postcolonial Perspectives in and on Sarfraz Manzoor’s Greetings from Bury Park.” Presentation as part of the teacher training workshop Race, Religion and Rock'n Roll: Sarfraz Manzoor’s Memoir Greetings from Bury Park as an Example of Postcolonial Literature, organised with Sylke Bakker at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
20 July 2022: "Literatur und Leihmutterschaft. Eine postkoloniale Perspektive." Lecture series Diagnosen der Gegenwart? Literaturtheorie im 21. Jahrhundert, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
29 May 2022: "Reproductive Agency and Victimhood: Visible Absences in Fictional Representations of Commercial Surrogacy." Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt.
10 July 2021: "Anti-Natalism, the Dystopian Double Standard and the Anthropocene." Humanities for the Anthropocene: Values, Principles, and Practices, University of Puget Sound and University of Victoria.
May 2021: "Between the Metrics of Terror and the Terror of Metrics: The 2015 Paris Attacks in Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s Survivre." Le Malaise contemporain. Société et subjectivité dans la littérature française (1990–2020), Abtei Neumünster, Luxemburg (postponed until December 2021).
26 Feb. 2021: "On the Danger of Security: Neo-Orientalism and the Poetics of Insecurity." Sicherheit und Differenz in historischer Perspektive, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen.
16 Nov. 2018: "Knowledge, Power, and Security: Orientalism and Securitisation in Contemporary Francophone Fiction." Orientalism and the Francophone Postcolonial World: Legacies of Edward W. Said. Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference, University of London.
10 Nov. 2017: "Literary Perspectives on the 'Arab Spring': A Post-Orientalist Window of Opportunity?" Dialogues interculturels à l’époque coloniale et postcoloniale. Représentations littéraires et culturelles – Orient, Maghreb et Afrique occidentale (de 1830 à nos jours), German Historical Institute, Paris.
21 July 2017: "Translating Fear and Alterity: Neo-Orientalist Poetics of In_Security in Post-'Arab Spring' Fiction." Translating Fear. 10th Colloquium on Translation Studies in Portugal, Lisbon.