Julia M. Wright

Selected Published Books

• Monographs: Thomas Moore and the Transatlantic, 1800-1840: The Local, the Global, and the Mobile (Edinburgh University Press, 2025); Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television (Manchester University Press, 2016); Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism (Syracuse University Press, 2014); Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback, 2009); Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio University Press, 2003).
• Other recent books (selected):  co-ed. with Jason Haslam, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Broadview, 2020); ed., The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys by Lady Morgan (Broadview, 2013); co-ed.  with Joel Faflak, A Handbook to Romanticism Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); co-ed. with Elizabeth Sauer, Reading the Nation in English Literature (Routledge, 2010); ed., Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Recent Articles (2022-26 only)

Single-authored

• “The National Tale.” Cambridge History of the Irish Novel, ed. Christopher Morash. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2026.
• “Pandemics and the Gothic, Then and Now: A Hum in the Background.” Medical Humanities (BMJ) 51.4 (2025): 424-27. Published Online First.
• “Between Rhetoric and the Deep Blue Sea: John Wyndham’s Kraken Wakes.” Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies. Ed. Paul Foley and Jennifer Silver. Routledge, 2025. 95-104.
• “‘A Most Important Instrument’: Women, Literature, and the Social Good in 1790s Dublin.” European Romantic Review 35.3 (2024): 447-61.
• “‘This Strange Horror’: Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century.” Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 46-61.
• “The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation.” Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Bernice Murphy and Sorcha Ní Fhlainn. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 129-43.

Co-authored

• Fisman, David N., Jillian Horton, Matthew Oliver, Mark Ungrin, Joseph Vipond, Julia M. Wright, and Dick Zoutman. “Canada Needs a National COVID-19 Inquiry Now.” BMC Medicine 22, 537 (2024).
• Greenhalgh, Trisha, C. Raina MacIntyre, Mark Ungrin, and Julia M. Wright. “Airborne Pathogens: Controlling Words Won’t Control Transmission.” The Lancet 403 (11 May 2024): 1850-51.
• Bagshaw, Sean M., Erika Dyck, Maya J. Goldenberg, Bev Holmes, Esyllt Jones, and Julia M. Wright. “The Humanities and Health Policy.” FACETS  9 (2024): 1-10.

Selected Pieces in Newspapers:

Single-authored

• “Universities Are Not Government Departments.” Cape Breton Post (print edition only), 25 Feb 2025: B4.
• “Legitimating Expertise.” Inside Higher Ed. 6 February 2024.
• “We need a long-term plan for the post-secondary sector in Canada.” The Hill Times. 15 September 2021.
• “The pandemic has shown us why we must restore a margin of safety in our public institutions.” Globe and Mail. 19 January 2021.
• “How to Invest in our PhDs? Through Faculty Renewal.” University Affairs. December 2017.

Co-authored

• Tennant, Ryan, Mark Ungrin, Julia M. Wright, and Dick Zoutman. “The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier.” The Conversation 3 November 2025.
• Oliver, Matthew, Mark Ungrin, and Julia M. Wright. “The Next Leap Forward: Clean Air for Canadians.” Policy Options 17 July 2025.
• Tennant, Ryan, Mark Ungrin, Dick Zoutman, and Julia M. Wright. “We can, and must, do more to protect students in higher education from the risks of post-COVID condition.” The Conversation 8 December 2024.
• Vipond, Joe, Julia M. Wright, and Dan Furst. “This is a pandemic of attrition.” Calgary Herald 7 December 2023.
• Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Amanda Clarke, Matthew Herder, Howard Ramos, and Julia M. Wright. “It’s Time to Protect Expert Advice.” Globe and Mail 3 March 2022.

Selected Administrative Positions at Dalhousie

• President, Dalhousie Faculty Association (2019-20)
• Member, DFA Bargaining Team (2017-18)
• Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (2013-2016; Interim, 2021-22)
• Dalhousie SSHRC Leader (2013-2016)

Selected Academic Positions (national)

• Member, Editorial Board, PMLA (2025-27)
• President, Academy of the Arts and Humanities, and Vice-President, Royal Society of Canada (2019-22)
• Member, Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 (2020-23)
• Director, Board of Directors, Council of Canadian Academies (2020-22)
• Director, Board of Directors, Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2015-19)

Selected Grants and Awards

• King Charles III Coronation Medal (2025)
• Distinguished Scholar Award, Keats-Shelley Association of America (2025)
• CAUT Dedicated Service Award (2022)
• SSHRC Insight, Connection, and Standard Research Grants (since the 1990s)