{"id":132,"date":"2025-01-30T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2025-01-31T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:17:54","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Hello and welcome!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the personal website of Julia Straub, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Fribourg. In my teaching, I cover English literature from the 1780s onwards. My research interests include a variety of topics, and I try to connect my teaching and research where possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first book (<em>A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante\u2019s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature<\/em>, 2007) was about Victorian literature, intermediality, and Victorian gender ideology. My second book (<em>The Rise of New Media, 1750-1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory<\/em>, 2017) explored early American literature and the links between literary and media history in a transatlantic context. I am currently working on a project dealing with motherhood and form in contemporary anglophone literature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I welcome proposals for doctoral supervision for projects that overlap with own research interests. Prospective doctoral students should include a CV and a short outline of their planned doctoral project in addition to a letter of motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Office hours for UniFr students are by appointment.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SIG_6405-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome! This is the personal website of Julia Straub, Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Fribourg. In my teaching, I cover English literature from the 1780s onwards. My research interests include a variety of topics, and I try to connect my teaching and research where possible.\u00a0 My first book (A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.unifr.ch\/julia.straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}