Julia Creet

Julia Creet

Julia Creet is an Associate Professor of English (with three degrees in history). She teaches memory studies, literary nonfiction and Queer Theory (in a former life). She is the co-editor (with Andreas Kitzmann) of Memory and Migration—multidisciplinary approaches to memory studies (University of Toronto Press 2011), and co-editor (with Sara Horowitz and Amira Dan) of H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (Forthcoming. Northwestern UP, 2015).   She is also 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, “The Unread Novel” to be completed during as the Tziphor Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.   She is also the director and producer of “Need to Know: Ancestry and the Business of Family” (2015) a feature-length documentary about the industry behind the “innate” need to know one’s past.  Her essays have been published in Toronto Life, Exile, Argus, differences, European Studies, Applied Semiotics and Paradoxa, translated into Hungarian and Polish, and commissioned for edited collections in Canada, the US, Sweden, the Netherlands and Israel. With Sara Horowitz and Amira Dan, Julia Creet is an editor of the forthcoming collection of essays on the German-Jewish writer H.G. Adler. Also in the works is “A Genealogy of Genealogy,” a look at the industry behind the “innate” need to know one’s past, along with a documentary on the same topic called “Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family.”

creet@yorku.ca