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Julia Heinemann

Julia Heinemann

Research Fellow

Englische Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 4308
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37379

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Abstract

Julia Heinemann holds an MSt in English (1900-present) from Oxford University as well as a MEd from Georg-August-University Göttingen. The results of her master's thesis were published under the title „Rethinking Subjectivity after Postmodernism: The Many Faces of Henry James in the Contemporary Literary Imagination“ in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (peer-reviewed, 2020).

Her doctoral dissertation, titled "Mina Loy's Metaphysical Modernism", investigates the philosophical orientation of this modernist author's oeuvre. She aims to demonstrate that Loy's works challenge strong claims about modernity's rupture with metaphysical thought by consistently renegotiating the position of the human subject in relation to questions of immanence and transcendence.

Her research is supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung) as well as the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

She is a co-organiser of https://loysymposium2023.wordpress.com.

Professional career

  • 03/2023 - 05/2023
    DAAD-funded research stay at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, in New Haven (CT)
  • since 10/2020
    Research Assistant at the Department of English (Literary Studies), Leipzig University
  • 03/2020 - 07/2020
    Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) at the Department of Anglophone Literature and Culture, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff)
  • 06/2016 - 03/2020
    Student Assistant at the Department of Anglophone Literature and Culture, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Barbara Schaff)

Education

  • since 10/2020
    Doctoral Research
  • 10/2017 - 08/2020
    Master of Education (Secondary School) for the subjects History and English, Georg-August-University Göttingen
  • 10/2018 - 06/2019
    Master of Studies English (1900-present), Exeter College, University of Oxford
  • 10/2014 - 09/2017
    Bachelor of Arts in History and English, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Panel Memberships

  • since 10/2022
    Member of the "Studienkommission" for English Studies, American Studies, and Linguistics

Julia Heinemann's doctoral research focuses on metaphysical thought in the works of artist and writer Mina Loy. It reads her works as evidence of a life-long commitment to metaphysical inquiry which has great influence on both her political positions and the development of her modernist aesthetic.

She is a coorganisor of the online symposium "Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023" (https://loysymposium2023.wordpress.com/).


Talks:

  • "The Knotty Metaphysics of Mina Loy's Insel." Regional PhD & ECR Research Colloquium, Jena. 15 Dec 2023.
  • Vortrag "Metaphysical Loy." Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023, Online symposium. 4 Aug 2023.
  • With Jade French and Jennifer Ashby: co-lead interview and collage workshop for the keynote session with the leaders of digital humanities project Navigating the Avant-Garde, Profs Linda Kinnahan, Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne Churchill of mina-loy.com. Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023, Online symposium. 4 Aug 2023. More info here: https://loysymposium2023.wordpress.com/keynote/
  • "Spaces of Possibility: Mina Loy's Poetics of Radical Contingency." BAMS Conference "Hopeful Modernisms" in Bristol, Jun 2022.
  • "'Where each extrudes beyond the tangible': Mind and Matter in the Revisionary Metaphysics of Mina Loy." New Work in Modernist Studies Conference 2021, Online. 10 Dec 2021.
  • "Work in Progress: Mina Loy's Metaphysical Modernism." Research Colloquium British Studies, Leipzig University, 2 May 2021.



  • Heinemann, J.
    Book Review: Yasna Bozhkova. Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries
    Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 2023. 71 (1). pp. 95–97.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2023-2009
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  • Heinemann, J.
    Rethinking Subjectivity after Postmodernism: The Many Faces of Henry James in the Contemporary Literary Imagination
    Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 2020. 61 (2). pp. 127–143.
    DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2019.1700895
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more publications

  • Modernist Cultures

  • "I speak for the trees": Children's Literature and the Environement

  • Lecture: The Phenomenology of Literature – Literature as Phenomenology

  • Modernist Subjectivities

  • Essential Texts of English Literature

  • Introduction to British Literatures and Cultures I: Introduction to Literary Analysis

  • Introduction to British Literature and Culture (Göttingen)