Julie Fiorelli

About

Since joining the Loyola faculty in 2015, I have taught a range of core writing and literature courses: UCWR 110 (Writing Responsibly), UCLR 100E (Interpreting Literature), ENGL 273 (Exploring Fiction), and ENGL 284 (Asian American Literature). I adopt a process-oriented, workshop-style approach to writing instruction, working closely with my students as they further develop their skills through progressive practice and revision. My literature classes are discussion-based, so that we may build literary analyses together. My research background in issues of race in the U.S., multiethnic American literature, and speculative fiction heavily informs the materials and topics I bring into the classroom. I look forward every semester to learning with my students!

Degrees

• BA, Carleton College
• MA, University of Maryland, College Park
• PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests

• Multiethnic American literature (with an emphasis on African American and Asian American literature) (late nineteenth century to present)
• Race, utopia, genre, and speculative literature
• Composition

Awards

• Liebentritt Faculty Development Award (2019-2020)

Selected Publications

Articles:

• “Against ‘a Place Without History’: Contemporary Racism and Utopian Dynamism in Mat Johnson’s Pym,” Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society, edited by Edward Chan and Patricia Ventura.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• “Hidden Cities, Hidden Selves: Lost-Race Romance in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood and Walter McDougall’s The Hidden City.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 452-474. 
• “Imagination Run Riot: Apocalyptic Race-War Novels of the Late 1960s.”  Mediations, vol. 28, no. 1, Fall 2014, pp. 127-152.