Senior Lecturer in English, La Trobe University
Juliane Roemhild is a Senior Lecturer in English at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her research is on British and German interwar literature, as well as bibliotherapy. She has a particular interest in women's writing, reception studies, reading pedagogies, depictions of positive affect in literature, and the "eudaimonic turn" in literary studies.
She is a founding member of the Elizabeth von Arnim Society and has published on writers like Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay and Vicki Baum. She has won the 2018 Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize. Juliane has edited and co-edited special issues for Women: A Cultural Review, Writing from Below, and Thesis Eleven. Her book "Authorship & Femininity in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim" (Fairleigh Dickinson UP) was published in 2014.
Together with Sara James (Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University) Juliane currently leads a research project on "Shared Reading", which examines the positive effects of reading groups on wellbeing and mental health. The project has established, facilitated and evaluated Shared Reading groups in collaboration with a range of community partners across Melbourne.