Julia Lajta-Novak
Member of the Young Academy since 2017
- Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Contact:
julia.lajta-novak(at)univie.ac.at
Orcid-ID:
0000-0001-6025-2857
Research Areas:
- Linguistics and Literature
- English studies
- General literature studies
- History of literature
- Cultural studies
- Gender studies
- Life Writing
- Poetry Performance Studies
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- Historical Fictions Research Network (UK)
- Editorial board Journal of Historical Fictions
- International Auto/Biography Association Europe (IABA)
- Editorial board European Journal of Life Writing
- Netzwerk Biographieforschung (A)
- ESSE Gender Studies Network (national correspondent)
- German Society for the Study of English
Selected Prizes:
- Elise Richter Fellowship, FWF, 2016
- Preis für hervorragende Lehre, Universität Salzburg, 2015
- Marie-Andeßner Habilitation Scholarship, University of Salzburg, 2015
- Hertha Firnberg Fellowship, FWF, 2012
- Doc.Award der Stadt Wien/Universität Wien, 2011
Selected Publications:
- Novak, Julia, and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (2022). “Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction: Introduction.” Pp. 1-46. In: Novak, J., Ní Dhúill, C. (eds) Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09019-6_1..
- Novak, Julia (2022) “Screening Clara Schumann: Biomythography, Gender, and the Relational Biopic” Biography 45.1 (2022), 1-26. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/869247..
- Novak, Julia (2020) “Performing Black British Memory: Kat François’s Spoken-Word Show Raising Lazarus as Embodied Auto/Biography.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56:3, 324-341: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1737184..
- Lajta-Novak, Julia (2016) 'Rais’d from a Dunghill, to a King’s Embrace': Restoration Verse Satires on Nell Gwyn as Life-Writing. Life Writing, Bd. 13 (4), S. 449-464.
- Lajta-Novak, Julia (2014) Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature'. Contemporary Women's Writing, Bd. 8 (3), S. 373-390 <'http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/373.full.pdf+html'>.