Dr Julia Petzl-Berney
Casual Lecturer - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Email: jpetzl@une.edu.au
Building: E11
Biography
Julia completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. She spent a year in Europe, based primarily at the Karl-Franzens Universität, Austria while researching for her doctoral thesis, on East German writers Helga Schubert, Helga Königsdorf and Monika Maron.
In 1999, Julia was offered a position as Associate Lecturer in German at the University of New England and, from 2001-2004, she held a position as Associate Lecturer at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. There, Julia was responsible for Beginners' German and Business German, as well as for lecturing about German literature, film and culture. In addition to this, she modified Beginners' German, so that it could be offered as a web-dependent unit on other campuses in Tasmania. In 2003 her thesis was published as a book by Peter Lang. It is entitled Realism and Reality in Helga Schubert, Helga Königsdorf and Monika Maron.
In 2005, Julia returned to the University of New England as Lecturer, where she was appointed to develop online components for the German courses as part of a Higher Education Innovation Project grant with Associate Professor Kerry Dunne. After the conclusion of this project, Julia was appointed to the position of Lecturer in German and remained at UNE as lecturer until 2014, before transferring to a casual lecturer position for family reasons.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Hons, QLD)
- PhD (QLD)
- Grad Cert Higher Ed (University of New England)
Teaching Areas
Current Teaching and Coordination AreasGRMN303 Contemporary Short Stories
GRMN305/405 Love, Betrayal and Politics
GRMN306/406 Societies in Transition
Julia is also the contact person for students wanting to go on an exchange at one of our four partner universities in Germany (Trier, Oldenburg) and Austria (Graz, Klagenfurt)
Distinctions
Citation. Australian Learning and Teaching Council. 2008. The German Team (UNE and University of NSW; Team Leader: Kerry Dunne).
Research Interests
Julia’s research interests are in the field of GDR and post-Wende studies and comparative literature and film.
Publications
“War, Wives and Whitewash: The Zookeeper and his Aryan Animals” in Jan Shaw, Philippa Kelly and L.E. Semmler (Eds.) Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. pp. 124-131.
Realism and Reality in the Works of Helga Schubert, Helga Königsdorf and Monika Maron. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003.
Memberships
- Australasian Languages and Literature Association
- German Studies Association of Australia.
