Julia Margaret Wright (born 1964) is a professor in the Department of English and University Research Professor at

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. Wright is an elected

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Education

Wright completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the

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in 1994.

Career

While at the

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in 1997, Wright was awarded the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature by the Ontario government for her research around imperialism in India and Ireland in the early 19th century. In 2002, Wright joined

Wilfrid Laurier University Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to as WLU or simply Laurier) is a public university in Ontario, Canada, with campuses in Waterloo, Brantford and Milton. The newer Brantford and Milton campuses are not considered satellite campuses ...

as a tier-2

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in English and Cultural Studies. At Wilfrid Laurier, Wright published a book titled "Blake, Nationalism and the Politics of Alienation" which won the Northeast Modern Language Association/Ohio University Press Book Award. She stayed at Wilfrid Laurier until 2005 when she accepted a position as a tier-2 Canada Research Chair in European Studies at

. In 2013, Wright was named an Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie. In her role as Associate Dean of Research, Wright helped coordinate events at Dalhousie with the

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. In 2015, Wright was nominated for Director, Associations of the

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. On February 17, 2015, Wright and Dominique Marshall were elected to the position. In 2017, Wright was re-elected as Director, Associations of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She was also elected a

. In 2018, she was also named the President-Elect for the Dalhousie Faculty Association.

Publications

The following is a list of publications: *''Blake, Nationalism and the Politics of Alienation'' (2004) *''Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature'' (2007) *''Irish literature, 1750-1900: an anthology'' (2008) *''Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism'' (2014) *''Men with stakes: masculinity and the gothic in US television'' (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Julia M. Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian women academics Canadian women non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Canada Research Chairs Academic staff of Wilfrid Laurier University Academic staff of the Dalhousie University 1964 births