Julia Woodward is a Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature at Boston College. Her work focuses on African-American and Caribbean literature and is concerned with questions of racial, intersectional, and environmental justice. She has taught BC undergraduate courses in First-Year Writing (Writing for Change), Literature Core (Literature and Social Justice), and Race & Environment in Speculative Fiction. She is at work on a dissertation investigating modes of survival developed in the face of unimaginable futures marked by racial and ecological crises in historical and neo-slave narratives of the Americas. Woodward holds a B.S. in Sociology and Education from Cornell University, and an M.A. in English from Middlebury College, and taught high school English for 9 years in Boston-area schools before joining the Ph.D. program at BC. She previously held a research fellowship with the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, investigating how speculative fiction helps us to think through challenges to democracy presented by global climate change.
