Associate Professor Julia Erhart

Julia Erhart is a feminist film scholar and internationally recognised researcher on women’s screen practice, including women’s interventions in independent and commercial feature filmmaking. Julia is the author of two books, Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury 2018), about innovations by women filmmakers in biopics, war films, and other genres, and Gillian Armstrong: popular, sensual & ethical cinema (Edinburgh 2020).

Julia has allied research interests in Australian cultural identities and has written on the comedies of Chris Lilley (2013; 2014). She has recently produced a suite of articles on gender equity and the Australian screen industries.

Julia has authored a substantial body of research on LGBTIQ-themed media. Her articles have appeared in anthologies including Queer TV in the Twenty-First Century (2016), Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: Biopics and American National Identity (2016), Queer Love in Film and Television (2013), and in journals a/b: Auto/Biography, Screen, and Camera Obscura.

She is currently working on a monograph about the production, marketing, and reception of the 1961 queer classic, The Children’s Hour (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).

Julia is a nationally recognised teacher. She is the recipient of a citation from the Office of Teaching and Learning (2014), the Vice-Chancellor's award and the Faculty award for Excellence in Teaching (both in 2012).

Julia is the recipient of a grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a fellowship from Fulbright.

Institutions Julia has taught at include the University of California (Santa Cruz), San Francisco State, NYU, Brown, and Technische Universität (Chemnitz). Born and raised in New York City, Julia worked for New Line Cinema and as a freelance film editor before becoming an academic. She currently lives in the Adelaide Hills.