Julia Lajta-Novak , MA

Member of the Young Academy since 2017

• Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Contact:

julia.lajta-novak(at)univie.ac.at

Orcid-ID:

0000-0001-6025-2857

Research Areas:

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

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:

• ERC Consolidator Grant 2020
• START-Preis, FWF, 2020
• Elise Richter Fellowship, FWF, 2016
• Preis für hervorragende Lehre, Universität Salzburg, 2015
• Marie-Andeßner Habilitationsstipendium, University of Salzburg, 2015

Selected Publications:

• 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.
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• 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'>.
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• 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..
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• 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..
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• 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..
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