This page provides information about Julia Lajta-Novak’s lectures, research trips and further news and activities.
2022 |
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| 18 Nov | Welcome note, “Taking the Mic: Black British Spoken Word Poetry Since 1965” conference, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London |
| 29 Aug | Conference paper: “The Personal is Poetical: Spoken-Word Poetry as Feminist Counter-Discourse” ESSE conference Mainz (online) |
| 13 Jan | Co-convenor, networking workshop of the ERC-projects “Poetry Off the Page” (University of Vienna) and “Poetry in the Digital Age” |
2021 |
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| 03 Dec | Co-convenor of the 19th Workshop of the Biography Research Network, “Medialitäten des Auto/Biographischen“, University of Vienna |
| 14 Oct | Invited Lecture “Spoken-Word-Poetry und Self-Empowerment”, “Was ist Spoken Word?” symposium, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 23 Sep | Co-convenor of the Science Day “Language”, Young Academy, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
| 15 Sep | Invited panel convenor “Gendering Biofiction as World Literature”, at “Biofiction as World Literature” conference, University of Leuven |
2020 |
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| 4 Dec | Mini-lecture “Applying for an ERC Consolidator Grant”, IWM Vienna |
| 27 Nov | Co-convenor of the 17th Workshop of the Biography Research Network, “Theorie-Salon: Gibt es eine biographische Wende? – Alte und neue Konzepte in trans/disziplinären Kontexten”, University of Vienna |
| 29 Oct | Lecture ” ‘Speaking onself into being’: Black British Memory, Auto/Biography, and the Spoken-Word Show”, University of Vienna |
| 22 Oct | Lecture “Cinematic Appropriation, Biomythology, and Gender: Screening Clara Schumann”, lecture series Celebrity & Memory: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Perspectives, University of Vienna |
| 17 June | START Prize, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), for my next project “Poetry Off the Page: Literary History and the Spoken Word, 1965-2015” |
2019 |
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| 16-17 Dec | Convenor of the conference “Herstory Re-imagined: Women’s Lives in Biographical Fiction and Film“, King’s College London |
| 15-16 Nov | Co-convenor of the 16th Workshop of the Biography Research Network, “Auto/Biographie, Gender und Celebrity“ |
| 25 Oct | Keynote lecture: “Speaking to Young Adults: Kat François’s Spoken-Word Show Raising Lazarus as Inspirational Auto/Biography,” ‘Beyond Boundaries. Authorship and Readership in Life Writing’ conference, University of Tilburg. |
| 23 May | Book launch “Life Writing and Celebrity” and “Experiments in Life Writing”, English Studies Library, University of Vienna |
| 10 May |
Invited lecture: “Clara Schumann als Filmheldin” Die Herrlichste von Allen – Clara Schumann zum 200. Geburtstag conference, Schumann Haus, Zwickau |
2018 |
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| 8 Nov | Guest lecture: “Poetry Off the Page: The (Literary?) Economy of the Spoken Word, ” Literature, Arts and the Creative Industries lecture series, University of Salzburg |
| 22 March | Conference paper: “Performing Re-Memory: Kat Francois’ Spoken-Word-Show Raising Lazarus as Embodied Auto/Biography,” On Whose Terms? Ten Years On conference, Goldsmiths University of London |
| 1 March | Workshop paper: “Reading Fiction as Biography: Novelistic Afterlives of Historical Women Artists,” Young Academy Science Days (OeAW), Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna |
2017 |
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| 16 Nov | Co-convenor of the 12th Workshop of the Biography Research Network, with Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson |
| 24 Oct | Lecture: “Virginia Woolf and Life-Writing,” VO Virginia Woolf’s Modernism(s), University of Vienna |
| 10 July | Workshop: “Manifestations of the Carnivalesque: Reading (with) Bakhtin,” Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theories Summer School, University of Vienna |
| 19 May | Conference paper: “When Poetry Meets Performance: Kat Francois’ Spoken-Word Show Raising Lazarus as Embodied Auto-/Biography,” Situated in Translation conference, University of Hamburg |
| 25 Mar | Conference paper: “Postmodern Feminism to Postfeminism: Generic Layering in Biofictions about Women Artists,” Postmodernist Biofiction conference, University of Reading |
| 8 Mar | Elise Richter Awards, FWF |
| 24 Feb | Launch of the new Journal of Historical Fictions, second conference of the Historical Fictions Research Network, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich |
| 26 Jan | Guest lecture: “Restoration Verse Satire as Life-Writing: Reading Nell Gwyn,” University of Bamberg |
2016 |
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| 19 Nov | Conference paper: “From Celebrity ‘Whore’ to Romantic Heroine: Images of Nell Gwyn in Restoration Satire and Contemporary Biofiction”, Celebiography conference, University of Oxford |
| 24-26 Aug | Co-convenor of three “Life-Writing and Celebrity” panels at the 2016 conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Galway |
| 22 June | Convenor: Panel Discussion “The Ethics of Biographical Fiction”, King’s College London, University of London |
| 27 Apr | Laudatory speech for Dr. Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Käthe Leichter Guest Professor, University of Vienna |
| 28 Feb | Conference paper: “Feminist to Postfeminist: Generic Layering in Biofictions about Famous Women Artists”, Inaugural conference of the Historical Fictions Research Network, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge |
| 18 Feb | Appointed Visiting Professor of English and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Vienna, summer term 2016 |
| 14 Jan | Guest lecture: “Re-Imagining Famous Women Artists: Fictional and Filmic Afterlives,” Cultures of Celebrity lecture series, University of Vienna |
2015 |
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| 17 Dec | Guest lecture: “Spoken Word Poetry.” Literature in the Arts Context lecture series, University of Salzburg |
| 13 Sep | Guest lecture: “The Novelistic Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” The Browning Society, St Marylebone Parish Church, London |
| 5 June |
Conference convenor: “Biography and/as Experimental Fiction“, Goldsmiths University of London. Conference Report: |
| 26 Apr | Conference paper: “Re-Examining the Public/Private Dichotomy in Biographical Fictions about Historical Women Artists,” Writing Women’s Lives, Bath Spa University |
| 17 Apr | Marie Andeßner Scholarship The University of Salzburg’s Marie Andeßner Habilitationsstipendium is a two-year peer-reviewed postdoctoral grant, named after Austrian travel writer Marie Andeßner (1833 – 1906).  |
| 15 Apr |
Excellence in Teaching Award
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| 30 Jan | Guest lecture: “Romantic Heroine to Political Poet: Novelistic Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, University of Gießen |
2014 |
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| 2 Dec | “Sounding the Word: Poetry Slam in Class.” Workshop for EFL teachers, University of Salzburg/Plus Kultur |
| 28 Sep | Conference paper: “The Woman Poet in Fiction: Novelistic Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, Women Writing across Cultures, University of Oxford |
| 27 Sep | “Die Künstlerin in der Literatur”, article about biofiction project in Die Presse (“Portrait”) |
| 24 Sep | Guest lecture: “Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Fiction: Gendering Novelistic Afterlives“, King’s College London |
| 22-23 Sep | Co-convenor “Poetry & Performance” panels, Anglistentag 2014, University of Hannover |
| 1 Sep | Conference paper: “Romantic Heroine to Political Poet: Novelistic Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, ESSE 2014, University of Kosice |
| June – Sep | Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London, Centre for Life-Writing Research |
| 14 June | Lecture: “Biography to Romance: Fictionalising Nell Gwyn”, The Many Faces of Biography lecture series, University of Vienna |
| 19 May | Conference paper: “Remembering the Author in Fiction: Novelistic Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, Invention and Memory in Biography Workshop Conference, University of Salzburg |
| 14 May | Short review presentation of “The Postfeminist Biopic” by Bronwyn Polaschek, Netzwerk Biographieforschung (Network of Biography Researchers), University of Vienna |
| 26 Apr | Guest lecture/workshop: “Poetry in Action: Poetry in the EFL Classroom.” New Trends in ELT, Teachers of English in Austria, University of Vienna |
| 13 Mar | Lecture series “The Many Faces of Biography“, co-organised with Prof. Werner Huber: introductory session on biography theory/methodology |
2013 |
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| 26 Nov | Guest lecture: “The (Re-)Making of Clara Wieck-Schumann: Celebrity and Gender in Biofiction”, Celebrity Seminar, University of Vienna |
| 22 Nov | Conference paper: “Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography, Individuality, and the Dictates of ‘Genre Literature’,” Genre/Genres, Université Paris-Est Créteil |
| 13 Nov | Guest lecture: “Nell Gwyn: A Dubious Romantic Heroine in Biographical Novels of the 21st Century”, St Anne’s College, Oxford University |
| 2 Nov | Conference paper: “Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of ‘Genre Literature'”, IABA 2013 |
| Oct-Nov | University of Oxford, English Faculty: Visiting Researcher |
| 22 July | “Mit Bleistift und feministischer Brille” article about biofiction project in Der Standard (“Geistesblitz”) |
| 19 June | Live Interview about biofiction project on radio Ö1 (“Von Tag zu Tag”) |
| 17 June | Article about my project in the University’s Research Newsletter |
| 27 Apr | Conference paper: “Disparate Images: The ‘Work vs Life’ Topos in Contemporary Biofictions about Victorian Authors”, with Sandra Mayer, AAUTE Conference “Images”, Salzburg |
| 17 Jan | “Performing Resistance: Caribbean Poets on Stage.” Guest lecture, inv. by Dr Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna |
2012 |
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| 3 Nov | “Space in Fictionalised Biographies of Historical Women Artists”. Conference paper, international conference on “Thinking Space”, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 26 Sep | “The (Re-)Making of Clara Wieck-Schumann: Celebrity and Gender in Biofiction”. Guest lecture, King’s College London |
| Sep | King’s College London, Centre for Life-Writing Research: Visiting Research Fellow |
| 2 May | Guest lecture: “Live Poetry: Approaching Poetry in Performance.” University of Augsburg |
