Julie Fiorelli

Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator, Senior Lecturer

Bio

Since joining the Loyola faculty in 2015, I have taught a range of core writing and literature courses: UCWR 110 (Writing Responsibly), UCLR 100E (Interpreting Literature), ENGL 273 (Exploring Fiction), and ENGL 284 (Asian American Literature). I adopt a process-oriented, workshop-style approach to writing instruction, working closely with my students as they further develop their skills through progressive practice and revision. My literature classes are discussion-based, so that we may build literary analyses together. My research background in issues of race in the U.S., multiethnic American literature, and speculative fiction heavily informs the materials and topics I bring into the classroom. I look forward every semester to learning with my students!

Education

BA, Carleton College
MA, University of Maryland, College Park
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests

Multiethnic American literature (with an emphasis on African American and Asian American literature) (late nineteenth century to present)
Race, utopia, genre, and speculative literature
Composition

Publications/Research Listings

Articles:

“Against ‘a Place Without History’: Contemporary Racism and Utopian Dynamism in Mat Johnson’s Pym,” Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society, edited by Edward Chan and Patricia Ventura. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
“Hidden Cities, Hidden Selves: Lost-Race Romance in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood and Walter McDougall’s The Hidden City.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 452-474.
“Imagination Run Riot: Apocalyptic Race-War Novels of the Late 1960s.” Mediations, vol. 28, no. 1, Fall 2014, pp. 127-152.

Awards

Liebentritt Faculty Development Award (2019-2020)