Julia听Heim听(she/they) received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. A scholar who focuses on LGBTQIA+ representation in contemporary Italian media, she has published or is co-author of the recent articles听鈥淚talian LGBTQ representation in Transnational TV, 鈥澨淨ueer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field,鈥 and 鈥淲hy LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Matters for Italian Studies.鈥澨齌hey are currently following up their last co-edited volume听Queering Italian Media (Lexington, 2020) with a new co-edited edition about Queer Italian American Media entitled听Spaghetti Sissies听(Palgrave, forthcoming). In addition to her research Dr.听Heim听is an active Italian-English translator of theater, art criticism, queer theory, and the children's book series听Geronimo Stilton;听forthcoming works include the co-translated Italian transfeminist collection听Digital Fissures听(Brill publishing, 2022) and the one-act play听Meet My Dad.听
MA: Italian Literature and Culture,听Middlebury College
PH.D: Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center in New York
- Pedagogy
- Media Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Queer Theory
- Digital Humanities
ITAL0091 - Contemporary Italy (First Year Seminar)
ITAL0100 - Elementary Italian I
ITAL 0120 - Accelerated Elementary Italian
ITAL 0200 - Elementary Italian II
ITAL 1910 - Sicily on Page & Screen
ITAL 2520 - Pop Culture, Politics and Peninsular Identity
ITAL 2522 - Modern Italian Culture
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Heim Julia and Rossella Di Rosa,听鈥淭ying Thoughts and Forging Bonds in Language and Content Instruction. Redefining Literacy Through Social Annotation Tools.鈥澨, pp. 29-39.
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, 鈥淚t is Messy. And it is Mediated,鈥 The Italianist: Film Issue (Summer 2021).
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, 鈥淲orking in the Shadows: Collaboration as Queer Practice.鈥 Gender/Sexuality/Italy 鈥淐ollaborations,鈥 7 (February 2021).
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, eds. Queering Italian Media. Maryland: Lexington Press (February 2020).
Heim, Julia, 鈥淚talian LGBTQ representation in Transnational TV,鈥 JICMS Vol. 8:2, (March 2020).
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, 鈥淲hy LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Matters for Italian Studies,鈥 in Diversity in Italian Studies, ed. A. Tamburri. New York: John D. Calandra (forthcoming).
Heim, Julia, Charlotte Ross and SA Smythe, 鈥淨ueer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field,鈥 Italian Studies, 74.4 (November 2019).
Heim, Julia, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe, eds. Italian Queer Cultures. Themed section of gender / sexuality / Italy, vol. 6, 2019.
鈥Race, a Floating Signifier, or, Rudy Guede in the Italian Press,鈥 in Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.