Dr G. Bruna (Giulia) PhD

Giulia Bruna (MA, PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Radboud University. She was a postdoctoral fellow for the NWO-funded project project “Redefining the Region: The Transnational Dimensions of Local-Colour” (P.I. Prof. Marguérite Corporaal) at Radboud University from 2020 to 2023. Before moving to the Netherlands, she lectured in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and at the UCD Writing Centre.
Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Irish literature, regional fictional in transnational contexts, travel writing studies, periodical culture studies, . Her first monograph-- J.M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival--was published by Syracuse University Press in 2017. Her research on Synge, the Irish literary revival, Irish travel writing, Irish periodicals, and the European reception of nineteenth-century British and Irish local-colour fiction has appeared in the Irish Studies Review, Studies in Travel Writing, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Translation and Literature, Open Library of Humanities, and English Studies as well as in a number of peer-reviewed collections.
She serves as the Reviews Editor (post 1800) for English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature (Taylor & Francis).
She holds an MA and PhD from the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD and a Laurea Magistralis in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and French) from the University of Turin, Italy.