Julia Heim (she/they) received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. A scholar who focuses on LGBTQIA+ representation in contemporary Italian media, she has published or is co-author of the recent articles “Italian LGBTQ representation in Transnational TV, ” “Queer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field,” and “Why LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Matters for Italian Studies.” They are currently following up their last co-edited volume Queering Italian Media (Lexington, 2020) with a new co-edited edition about Queer Italian American Media entitled Spaghetti Sissies (Palgrave, forthcoming). In addition to her research Dr. Heim is an active Italian-English translator of theater, art criticism, queer theory, and the children's book series Geronimo Stilton; forthcoming works include the co-translated Italian transfeminist collection Digital Fissures (Brill publishing, 2022) and the one-act play Meet My Dad.
MA: Italian Literature and Culture, Middlebury College
PH.D: Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center in New York
- Pedagogy
- Media Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Queer Theory
- Digital Humanities
ITAL0091 - Contemporary Italy (First Year Seminar)
ITAL0100 - Elementary Italian I
ITAL 0120 - Accelerated Elementary Italian
ITAL 0200 - Elementary Italian II
ITAL 1910 - Sicily on Page & Screen
ITAL 2520 - Pop Culture, Politics and Peninsular Identity
ITAL 2522 - Modern Italian Culture
Heim Julia and Rossella Di Rosa, “Tying Thoughts and Forging Bonds in Language and Content Instruction. Redefining Literacy Through Social Annotation Tools.” TILCA - Teaching Italian Language and Culture Annual, 2023, pp. 29-39.
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, “It is Messy. And it is Mediated,” The Italianist: Film Issue (Summer 2021).
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, “Working in the Shadows: Collaboration as Queer Practice.” Gender/Sexuality/Italy “Collaborations,” 7 (February 2021).
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, eds. Queering Italian Media. Maryland: Lexington Press (February 2020).
Heim, Julia, “Italian LGBTQ representation in Transnational TV,” JICMS Vol. 8:2, (March 2020).
Heim, Julia and Sole Anatrone, “Why LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Matters for Italian Studies,” in Diversity in Italian Studies, ed. A. Tamburri. New York: John D. Calandra (forthcoming).
Heim, Julia, Charlotte Ross and SA Smythe, “Queer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field,” Italian Studies, 74.4 (November 2019).
Heim, Julia, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe, eds. Italian Queer Cultures. Themed section of gender / sexuality / Italy, vol. 6, 2019.
“Race, a Floating Signifier, or, Rudy Guede in the Italian Press,” in Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.