Julia Hoydis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Graz, Austria. In 2022, she held the position of Academic Programme Manager and Associate Director at MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities, University of Cologne. Previously, she has also taught at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Cologne, Duisburg-Essen, and Cambridge. Her research is situated at the intersection of literary and cultural studies and the Environmental Humanities, with a special focus on literature and interdisciplinary risk theory, climate change narratives and future-making across different media. Together with David Higgins, she co-leads the trinational project Just Futures? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models (2023-2026) with funding from the FWF (Austria), the AHRC (UK), and the DFG (Germany). Other areas of interest are the English novel, posthumanism and AI narratives, postcolonial studies (especially contemporary Indian literature and Black speculative fiction), as well as transcultural and transmedial adaptation studies. Her book publications include Risk and the English Novel (De Gruyter, 2019), Tackling the Morality of History: Amitav Ghosh and the Ethics of Storytelling (Winter, 2011), and Climate Change Literacy, co-authored with Roman Bartosch and Jens Martin Gurr (CUP, 2023). She is general editor of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, and Vice-President of the German Association of the Study of English (2022-2025).
Contact: julia.hoydis
uni-graz.at
Selected Publications:
Hoydis, Julia. “Parables for Planetary Crisis: Multispecies Migration and Storytelling in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island.” Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2024): pp. 1-19. Open Access. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2024.2365155[
Hoydis, Julia, Roman Bartosch, and Jens M. Gurr. Climate Change Literacy. Key Elements in Environmental Humanities Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. Open Access. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009342032
Hoydis, Julia. “Caring (for) Futures: Intergenerational Justice in Contemporary British Drama.” Aging Studies and Ecocriticism. Eds. Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg. Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. Lexington Books. 2023.
Hoydis, Julia. Risk and the English Novel. From Defoe to McEwan. Anglia Book Series 66. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. (Habil.). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615418
Forthcoming Work:
Hoydis, Julia, and Roman Bartosch. “Climate Fiction as Future-Making:
Narrative and Cultural Modelling beyond Representation.” Future Humanities [accepted]