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Education
Ph.D., Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany
M.A., Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
M.A., Université de Bourgogne, France
About Me
Juliane Braun specializes in early American studies, with an emphasis on the multilingual and transnational literatures of the Americas. Her research and teaching focuses on transoceanic studies, the environmental humanities, and theatre and drama.
Dr. Braun’s first book, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans (University of Virginia Press, 2019), examines the transnational, political, and social reach of French Louisianian theatrical culture. It has won the Theatre Library Association’s 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award.
Braun has held fellowships from the NEH, the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the European Association for American Studies, and the British Library. On-going research projects include a translated and edited collection of French Louisianian plays and a second book manuscript, tentatively titled Translating the Pacific: Nature Writing, Print Culture and the Making of Transoceanic Empire.
Honors and Awards:
George Freedley Memorial Award (2020) for Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
NEH-MSH Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2023.
W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2023.
NEH-AAS Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2022.
Visiting Fellowship, Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library, 2019.
Research Interests
Nature writing and the environmental humanities; translation studies; book history and print culture studies; theater and drama
Publications
“Beyond 1776: Political Theater in the Americas.” Introduction to Forum: 1776 and/in Theater and Performance Studies. Early American Literature (EAL) 61.3 (2026): Forthcoming.
“Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage.” J19: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 12.1 (2024): 565-586.
“The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans.” African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850. Edited by Benjamin Fagan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 63-90.
“Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation.” Early American Literature (EAL) 54.3 (2019): 643-71.
“‘Strange Beasts of the Sea:’ Captain Cook’s Last Voyage and the Creation of a Transoceanic American Empire.” Atlantic Studies 15.2 (2018): 238-55.
Courses Taught
Graduate Courses: New Directions in Early American Studies; Early American Studies Between Land and Sea; Nature Writing and Early American Literature; Pacific Imaginations; Multilingual American Literature; Practicum: Teaching College English
Undergraduate Seminars: True Crime in Early America; Women Writers of Early America; The Specter of Haiti in Early American Literature; Writing Life in Early America; The Many Literatures of Early America
Introductory and Core Courses: Introduction to Literary Studies; American Literature to 1865