Julia Walker is an American academic. She is chair of the performing arts department and associate professor of
English and
drama at
Washington University in St. Louis.[1] Her work focuses on drama and
performance, covering a spectrum within the timeframe of modernity, which spans from the late 18th century to the present day.
Early life
Walker graduated from
Hanover College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and philosophy in 1986,[2][3] She earned a master's degree (1988) and a PhD (1995) in English literature from
Duke University.[4][5]
Career
Walker served as an assistant professor at the
College of William & Mary between 1985 and 1989.[5][3] From 1999 to 2005, she held the position of assistant professor at the
University of Illinois, where she later earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor in 2005. In 2006, she assumed the role of associate head of the English department at Illinois until her departure in 2008.
Since 2008, Walker has been an associate professor of English and Drama at Washington University in St. Louis.
In 2021, Walker's Performance and Modernity Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage was for shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize.[6]
Published works
Books
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words[7]
Performance and Modernity Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage[8][9]
Articles
Comparative Modernist Performance Studies: A Not-So-Modest Proposal,” co-authored with Glenn Odom. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 31.1[10]
"Transacting Change on the Transatlantic Stage," Theatre Survey 56.1 (January 2015): 28–50.
Why Performance? Why Now? Textuality and the Rearticulation of Human Presence." The
Yale Journal ofCriticism 16.1 (spring 2003): 153–173.
References
^"Julia A. Walker". Department of English. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2023-07-15.