Research Interests

• Literature and Performance
• Life-Writing
• Gender Studies
• Contemporary drama
• Intermediality

Teaching

• Introduction to the Study of Literature
• Research Methodology
• Approaching Literatures in English
• Introductory Seminar Literature

Publications

• Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Monographie. See www.livepoetry.net.

• Staging Interculturality: Papers given on the occasion of the eighteenth annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. (ed., with Werner Huber and Margarete Rubik). Trier: WVT, 2010.

• Gemeinsam Lesen: Die Buchgruppe als soziales Phänomen und ökonomische Triebkraft. Wien: Lit Verlag, 2007. Monograph. http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-8258-0440-4
• 'Book Groups - the Pleasure Factor: the potential of school book groups for EFL learners'. ELT News, Wien: Frühjahr 2007.
• Vienna:Views. (ed.) Wien: Literaturverlag °Luftschacht, 2006. (a collection of life-writing about Vienna) http://www.viennalit.at/viennaviews.htm
• 'Of you and I and depressing ducks: interview with John Siddique'. Poetry Salzburg Review, Nr. 11, Salzburg: Frühjahr 2007.
• 'Transformatrix - confused cultural identities in the performance poetry of Patience Agbabi'. Restless Travellers: Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. forthcoming. 
• "The Devil’s Music Master? Perspective Structure in Ronald Harwood’s
  Taking Sides." SKASE Journal of Literary Studies [online] 2009, vol. 1, no. 1. 20-34.
• "Lip Up Fatty: Marketing Live Poetry as Popular Culture”. State(s) of the Art: Considering Poetry Today. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 113-122.
• "Clara Schumann: A Life in Letters and Notes”. Conference Proceedings of “From the Cradle to the Grave” conference on life course models, University of Salzburg, Nov 2008 (forthcoming).

CV

• Julia Novak studied English and Music in Vienna and Edinburgh, and Arts Management in London. She completed the 'Spread Your Wings' training scheme of the National Association for Literature Development, UK and submitted her PhD thesis on poetry in performance in 2010.She is currently working on a postdoc project on fictionalised biographies of women artists. 
• M.A. English Studies (Magistra der Anglistik und Amerikanistik), University of Vienna, 2004
• M.A. Arts Administration and Cultural Policy, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2005
• DOC research scholarship for doctoral project: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2006-2007
• Theodor Koerner Prize for doctoral project, 2007
• PhD English Literature, University of Vienna, 2010. Schaumayer-Prize and Doc.Award (City of Vienna) for PhD thesis
• Lecturer (Vertragsassistentin: Chair Werner Huber), University of Vienna, 2008-
• Visiting Research Fellow, University of London, School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, May 2010

Homepage

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/julia.novak/