Dr. Julia Augart is a German-literature scholar, university lecturer, and specialist in intercultural German studies. Since September 2024, she works as a DAAD lecturer and staff member at the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. Previously, she held appointments at the University of Namibia, where she served as an associate professor of German, as well as DAAD lectureships at Kenyatta University in Kenya and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She has also taught at universities in the United States.
Julia Augart studied German and English literature at the University of Freiburg where she received her doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation on the romantic conception of love in the correspondence between Sophie Mereau and Clemens Brentano. In 2020, she additionally completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education at the University of Namibia.
Her research brings German literary studies into dialogue with African and postcolonial contexts. Her principal interests include German-language Namibian literature, representations of Africa in German fiction, Afrian crime fiction, literature teaching as well as German as a foreign language and academic writing.
She regularly reviews African fiction for www.literaturkritik.de