Julia Martins Adjunct Instructor Literature

Degrees: PhD, University of Michigan, Comparative Literature + Digital Studies
MA, University of Toronto, Comparative Literature
BA, American University Honors College, Literature
Favorite Spot on Campus: wvau studio
Book Currently Reading: Banal Nightmare, by Halle Butler
Bio: Júlia Irion Martins researches contemporary women's (auto)fiction, the collapse of irony/sincerity and feminism/postfeminism online, histories of cyberutopia, media theory, and affect theory. In addition to working on the internet, Martins also works on and translates Brazilian fiction. She has recently edited a special issue of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation on contemporary Brazilian literature and has a forthcoming article on perfume as media in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

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