Julia Hoydis

Julia Hoydis joined the University of Graz as Full Professor of English Literature in 2024. Previously, she worked at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Cologne, Duisburg-Essen, and Cambridge. Her research interests include the history and development of the English novel (from the 18th century to the present), narrative theory, literature and (natural) science, posthumanism and recent digital narrative forms, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism/environmental humanities. She is author of Risk and the English Novel (De Gruyter, 2019) and Tackling the Morality of History: Amitav Ghosh and the Ethics of Storytelling (Winter, 2011). Her most recent book Climate Change Literacy, co-authored with Roman Bartosch and Jens Martin Gurr, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Currently, she is Principal Investigator of the project “Just Futures? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models” (2023-2026, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, in collaboration with partners in the UK and Germany), which deals with questions of intergenerational justice and climate futures in various media. She is general editor of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies and vice-president of the German Association for the Study of English (2022-2025).