Julia Creet B.A., History, University of Victoria, M.A. History and Philosophy of Education, University of Toronto, Ph.D., History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. Julia Creet is an Associate Professor of English at York University in Toronto. She specializes in memory studies, literary nonfiction, and sexuality studies. She is the co-editor (with Andreas Kitzmann) of Memory and Migration—multidisciplinary approaches to memory studies (University of Toronto Press 2010), and the producer and director of a documentary, “MUM,” (2008) about the memoirs of a holocaust survivor who tried to forget. A book of documentary fiction based on the same material, tentatively titled “The Unread Novel” is in progress. Julia Creet has published numerous essays and book chapters on identity, sexuality, memory and testimony in various academic and literary publications including The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, differences, Applied Semiotics, Paradoxa, English Studies in Canada, Resources for Feminist Research, Toronto Life, West Coast Line and Exile. Several of her essays have been translated into Hungarian and Polish and others published in edited collections in Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands. Julia Creet is currently working on a genealogy of genealogy, a documentary and book project that looks at the industry behind the “innate” need to know one’s past.
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