Julia M. Wright

Selected Published Books

• Monographs: Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800-1840: The Local, the Global, and the Mobile (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2025); Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television (Manchester University Press, 2016); Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism (Syracuse University Press, 2014); Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback, 2009); Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio University Press, 2003).
• Other recent books (selected):  co-ed. with Jason Haslam, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Broadview, 2020); ed., The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys by Lady Morgan (Broadview, 2013); co-ed.  with Joel Faflak, A Handbook to Romanticism Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); co-ed. with Elizabeth Sauer, Reading the Nation in English Literature (Routledge, 2010); ed., Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Recent Articles (2022-25)

Single-authored:

·        “The National Tale.” Cambridge History of the Irish Novel, ed. Christopher Morash. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

·        “‘A Most Important Instrument’: Women, Literature, and the Social Good in 1790s Dublin.” European Romantic Review 35.3 (2024): 447-61.

·        “’This Strange Horror’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century.” Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 46-61.

·        “The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation.” Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Bernice Murphy and Sorcha Ní Fhlainn. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 129-43.

Co-authored (authors in alphabetical order):

·        Fisman, David N., Jillian Horton, Matthew Oliver, Mark Ungrin, Joseph Vipond, Julia M. Wright, and Dick Zoutman. “Canada Needs a National COVID-19 Inquiry Now.” BMC Medicine 22, 537 (2024).

·        Greenhalgh, Trisha, C. Raina MacIntyre, Mark Ungrin, and Julia M. Wright. “Airborne Pathogens: Controlling Words Won’t Control Transmission.” The Lancet 403 (11 May 2024): 1850-51.

·        Bagshaw, Sean M., Erika Dyck, Maya J. Goldenberg, Bev Holmes, Esyllt Jones, and Julia M. Wright. “The Humanities and Health Policy.” FACETS  9 (2024): 1-10.

Selected Opinion Articles

Single-authored

• “Legitimating Expertise” (Inside Higher Ed 6 February 2024)
• “We need a long-term plan for the post-secondary sector in Canada” (The Hill Times 15 September 2021)
• “The pandemic has shown us why we must restore a margin of safety in our public institutions” (Globe and Mail 19 January 2021)

·        “How to Invest in our PhDs? Through Faculty Renewal” (University Affairs December 2017)

Co-authored

·        Tennant, Ryan, Mark Ungrin, Dick Zoutman, and Julia M. Wright. “We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition (The Conversation 8 December 2024)

·        Vipond, Joe, Julia M. Wright, and Dan Furst. “This is a pandemic of attrition” (Calgary Herald 7 December 2023)

·        Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Amanda Clarke, Matthew Herder, Howard Ramos, and Julia M. Wright. “It’s Time to Protect Expert Advice” (Globe and Mail 3 March 2022)

Selected Administrative Positions at Dalhousie

• President, Dalhousie Faculty Association (2019-20)
• Member, DFA Bargaining Team (2017-18)
• Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (2013-2016; Interim, 2021-22)
• Dalhousie SSHRC Leader (2013-2016)

Selected Academic Positions (national)

• President, Academy of the Arts and Humanities, Royal Society of Canada (2019-22)
• member, Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 (2020-23)
• Director, Board of Directors, Council of Canadian Academies (2020-22)
• Director, Board of Directors, Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2015-19)

Selected Grants and Awards

• CAUT Dedicated Service Award (2022)
• elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2017)
• Canada Research Chairs (2002-2005, 2005-2010, 2010-2012)
• Northeast MLA Book Award (2002)
• John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature (1997)
• F.E.L. Priestley Award (1994)
• CFI grants (2002-2005; co-applicant, 2007)
• SSHRC Standard Research, Insight, and Connection Grants (various, since 1997)