M.A. Julia Wewior

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Julia Wewior is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the field of American Studies. In her dissertation „Grieving Precariously: Precarity and Ungrievability in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s and Edwidge Danticat’s Narrative Fiction” she analyzed representations of troubled grieving. In her new project, she focuses on more-than-human kinship representations in pre-1968 North American Indigenous literature. She is the co-editor of Mobility, Agency, Kinship (2024, with Lea Espinoza Garrido and Carolin Gebauer) and of Migrant States of Exception I, a special issue of Parallax (2022, with Sylvia Mieszkowski and Birgit Spengler). Her research interests include Precarity, Gender, Migration, More-than-Human, Indigenous, African American and Caribbean Studies as well as Ethics and Aesthetics, Women Writers, and Narratology.

My profile on the website of the University's Center for Graduate Studies (CGS):

https://www.zgs.uni-wuppertal.de/de/ansicht-profile/julia-wewior/

Symposium “Agency, Community, Kinship — Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood”
Program

Talks with Taste:

https://video.uni-wuppertal.de/portal/Showcase/video-und-electure-portal/Presentation/5b01b8d683224ab680d118760bbdf0e91d

Publications:

Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Carolin Gebauer, and Julia Wewior, eds. Mobility, Agency, Kinship: Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Wewior, Julia. “The Migrant as ‘Ungrievable’ Life and ‘Bare Body’ in The Farming of Bones.” Migrant States of Exception II. Special Issue of Parallax 27.3 (2022): 300 -322.

Spengler, Birgit, Lea Espinoza Garrido, Sylvia Mieszkowski, and Julia Wewior. “Introduction: Migrant Lives in a State of Exception.” Migrant States of Exception I. Special Issue of Parallax 27.2. (2022): 115-158.

Mieszkowski, Sylvia, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior, eds. Migrant States of Exception I. Special Issue of Parallax 27.2 (2022).

Hofmann, Bettina and Julia Wewior. “Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland, by Susanne Rohr. Winter, 2021, 386 pp.”, Amerikastudien/American Studies 67.2 (2022). 276 – 277. Book Review.

Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior. “Introduction: Migrant Lives in a State of Exception II.” Migrant States of Exception II. Special Issue of Parallax 27.3 (2022): 241-249.

Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Birgit Spengler, Thomas Spijkerboer, and Julia Wewior. “Migration Emergencies in the European Postcolony: An Interview with Thomas Spijkerboer.” Migrant States of Exception I. Special Issue of Parallax 27.2 (2022): 223-239.

Espinoza Garrido, Lea, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Yehuda Sharim, Birgit Spengler, and Julia Wewior. “Documentary Filmmaking and the Representation of Migrant Lives. An Interview with Yehuda Sharim.” Migrant States of Exception II. Special Issue of Parallax 27.3 (2022): 267-281.

Talks:

01/2025: “Precarious Life and Feminist Storytelling”. Guest lecture, Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany. 

07/2023: “The Arts & Possible Futures: Dear White People as Case Study”. Guest lecture, Arts & Futures Lecture, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. 

05/2023: “On a Poetics of More-than-Human Relation in Claire of the Sea Light”. International Symposium “More-than-Human Studies”, Karlstads Universitet, Sweden.

05/2021: “Home and Belonging in The Farming of Bones and Claire of the Sea Light”. International Symposium “(Re-)Thinking Home: 21st-Century Caribbean Diaspora Cultures & Geopolitical Imaginaries in North America”, Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

04/2021: “Pondering Non-Citizenship: The Migrant Body as Space of Exception”. International Symposium “EAAS 2020”, University of Warsaw, Poland.

10/2020: “Grieving the ‘Ungrievable’: Narrating Precarious Lives”. International Symposium “EDEN 2020: The Age of the Precariat”, National University of Galway, Ireland.

12/2019: “Conflating War and Migration: State of Exception Discourse in The Farming of Bones”. Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (PGF 2019), Universität Passau, Germany.

11/2019: “Border Crossings and Migrant States of Exception in The Farming of Bones”. International Symposium ”Migrant States of Exception“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.

09/2109: “Narrating Precarity”. Postgraduate Forum “Current Trajectories in Narrative Research“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.

10/2013: “Humor and Representations of the Nazi Regime: Mel Brooks’ The Producers vs. Peter Barnes’ Laughter!”. Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies (PGF 2013) Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

05/2011: “Coping with the Past: Trauma in Morrison’s Beloved”. Student Symposium „Narrating History“, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Memberships:

Joint American Studies Colloquium (BUW, Düsseldorf, Siegen)

German Association for American Studies (DGfA)

Center for Narrative Research (ZEF)

Center for Graduate Studies (ZGS)

AG Erzählforschung

AG More-than-Human Humanities