Julia graduated from Reed College with a BA in German Literature in 2012. After graduating, she spent a year studying Weimar era political fairy tales in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany on a Fulbright research grant. She also holds an MA in German from UC Berkeley, where she focused on German Romanticism and realism, and a teaching credential in English from the University of San Francisco. She has spent the last five years working as a high school teacher in San Francisco Public Schools, where she taught everything from YA and graphic novels to Shakespeare and the Odyssey.
Her current research interests include 19th and 20th century novels and the intersections of literature, politics, and class. She also reads widely across contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, history, and theory, with the occasional German novel thrown in as well. Beyond reading, she likes to spend time going to the movies, going to shows, visiting friends, and hopefully getting back into bike touring.
