Education
PhD, Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, 2023
Dissertation: “Artist Run Athens: Mapping Spaces of Critical Practice between Two Crises, 2009-2022”
M.A. Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, 2019
M.A. European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2013
Thesis: “Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art in Athens in the Context of the Crisis”
B.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University Berlin, 2011
Professional Appointments
Emory University, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Assistant Teaching Professor, August 2023-present
University of Rochester, Adjunct Professor in Art History, Spring 2023
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Adjunct Professor in Media and Society, 2022-23
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
2022 Prosser Award for Outstanding Work by Beginning Scholars in Visual Methodologies, International Visual Sociology Association
Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Justice Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2021-2022
Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Teaching Fellowship, University of Rochester, Spring 2021
Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2017-19
Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Grant, University of Rochester, 2018
Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2015-17
Slattery Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2015-17
PROMOS Research Mobility Grant, German Academic Exchange Service, 2013
ERASMUS Study Abroad Grant, University of Leiden, Netherlands, 2009-10
Publications
Edited Volumes
Julia Tulke, ed. Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art and Graffiti in Athens, 2013-2023 (under contract with the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota for Fall 2023 publication)
Journal Articles (refereed)
Book Chapters
Journal Articles (non-refereed)
“Beyond Festishization and Co-Optation: Notes on Survival, Infrastructure, and Knowledge Production,” The Τελος Society: Educational Heurism 2 (2022), 7.
“#StayAtHomeProtest: DIY Banners in Berlin,” Nuart Journal 3, no. 2 (2021): 80-87.
“Aesthetics of Crisis. Notes on the Athenian Street Art Scene.” Form Design Magazine 254 (2014).
Conference Proceedings
Book Reviews
Review of Conflict Graffiti (2022) by John Lennon and Urban Art Mapping, Winterthur Portfolio, forthcoming 2023
Invited Talks and Lectures
As Keynote Speaker
“Street Art in Athens: Aesthetics of Crisis and the Political Imagination,” Second International Workshop on Visual Research, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, March 29, 2017
As Speaker
“Visual Politics of Crisis,” Conversations Across Screen Cultures, with Leah Shafer, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, March 23, 2023
“The Great Intervention: Anti-Graffiti Campaigns as an Aspirational Performance of Post-Crisis,” Greek Studies Now: Local Cases, Global Debates, University of Amsterdam, 15-17 June 2022
“What Do We Get Wrong About Crisis and Creativity?” Fisher Center 2021-2022 Speaker Series: Beyond, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, March 10, 2022
“Archiving Crisis,” Workshop Political Graffiti, Universität Paderborn, Germany, Feb 17-18, 2022
“Living Archives of the Present: On the Historical Value of Political Street Art and Graffiti,” Department of Art History, University of St. Thomas, March 21, 2021
“Activating Space,” Workshop held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 13-14, 2019
“Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art in Athens,” Hellenic Cultural Society of Rochester Annual Guest Lecture “Look to Listen,” Rochester (NY), USA, December 8, 2018
“‘Just because I move through a public space doesn‘t mean that my body is a public space’: Queere und Feministische Positionierungen in Athener Street Art,” Lecture Series “Gegen die Wand: Subversive Positionierungen von Autorinnen und Künstlerinnen,” Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, July 9, 2018
“Precarious Subjects, Subaltern Spaces: The Performative Politics of Street Art and Graffiti in Athens,” Subaltern Spaces, Workshop hosted by Excellence Cluster TOPOI – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations, Free University Berlin, Germany, June 19-20, 2017
Second Athens Public Art Festival: Survival-Art in Public Space, Athens, Greece, May 6, 2017
“Die Ästhetik der Krise: Politische Street Art in Athen im Kontext von Krise und Austerität,” Lecture Series “Leben in Zeiten der multiplen Krise,” University of Kassel, Germany, December 15, 2015
“Visual Encounters with Crisis and Austerity: Reflections on the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Street Art in Athens,” Greece in Crisis: Culture and the Politics of Austerity, Workshop hosted by the Networking Project “The Cultural Politics of the Greek Crisis” University of Birmingham, UK, May 23, 2014
“Ästhetiken der Krise: Eine Ethnographie zu politischer Street Art in Athen,” Lecture Series “Verortungen. Ethnologie in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit,” Werkstatt Ethnologie e.V., Berlin, Germany, March 28, 2014
As Discussant and Respondent
“Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, Materiality,” Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, September 28, 2019.
“Literary Salon: Graffiti Grrlz” with Jessica N. Pabón-Colón, Hudson Valley LGBT Community Center, Kingston, NY, September 23, 2018.
“Aesthetics of Protest,” Centre for Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, December 6, 2017.
Conference Activity
Conferences (Co-)Organized
“Representation: The Second WALL\THERAPY Conference,” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, July 28, 2018.
The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp Rochester 2018, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, March 23, 2018.
“Arts and Activism: The Inaugural WALL\THERAPY Conference,” The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY, July 29, 2017.
Papers Presented
“Beyond Legitimacy: Burning Boundaries in Graffiti and Street Art Scholarship,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 3-6, 2022.
“Assemblages of Possibility: Artist-Run Spaces in Athens,” European Association of Social Anthropologists 17th Biennial Conference, Queen’s University of Belfast, July 26-29, 2022
“Figuring Crisis: The Performative Politics of Street Art in Athens,” 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP), New Orleans, USA, October 17-20, 2018
“Polysemic Performances: Tags of Crisis on the Walls of Athens,” Name Writing in Public Space, A Conference about Tagging, in History and Today, Free University Berlin, Germany, September 14-15, 2017
“Figuring Crisis: The Performative Politics of Street Art in Contemporary Athens,” Annual Meeting of RC21, the Research Council on Urban Studies within the International Sociology Association, “Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An International Academic Conference for Critical Urban Studies,” University of Leeds, UK, September 11-13, 2017
“Visual and Performative Protest Repertoires: The Cultural Politics of Street Art in Athens,” Everyday Revolutions in Southern and Eastern Europe, University of Manchester, UK, May 19-20, 2017
“Austerity Urbanism and Insurgent Creativity: Tales of Crisis from the Streets of Athens,” Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany, December 4-5, 2014
“Aesthetics of Crisis: Street Art, Austerity Urbanism, and the Right to the City,” Urban Creativity and Street Art, University of Lisbon, Portugal. July 3-5, 2014
“A Tale of Morality and Debt: Exploring German Exceptionalism in the European Economic Crisis,” States of Exceptionalism: Globalization, Difference, Power, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany, May 8-9, 2014
“Aesthetics of Crisis: Political Street Art in Athens in the Context of the Crisis,” Graduate Conference of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, January 17, 2014
“Aesthetics of Crisis: Observations from the Greek Streets” Uneven Development. Geographies of Crisis, Spaces of Resistance, Association for Critical Social Research, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, June 27-19, 2013
Editorial Experience
Advisory Board Member, Nuart Journal, 2018-present
Managing Editor, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, 2020-2021
Exhibitions and Curatorial Experience
Solo Exhibition, “Aesthetics of Crisis,” Founders Hall Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA March-April 2017.
Video Contribution, “Aesthetics of Crisis,” Video Essay exhibited as part of the Seminar “Art, Expression, and Democracy,” Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, April 27-29, 2016
Photo Contribution, “The Street is my Gallery,” National Hellenic Museum, Chicago, USA, May-October 2015
Co-Curator, “Athens Berlin Caen – A Transeuropean Dialogue on the Crisis,” R. Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, Germany, March 2015
Photo Contribution, “ART Lounge: Club der Europäischen Versager,” Koerber Foundation, Hamburg, Germany, September 2014
Curator, “Aesthetics of Crisis, Research Exhibition,” R. Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, Germany, July 2013