Júlia Irion Martins

Júlia Irion Martins specializes in contemporary feminist literature of the Americas, digital cultures, and comparative media. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her book project, “Posting Hole or Posting Soul: Women’s Truth and Fiction in a Post-Internet Age” examines how internet security practices and digital media cultures encourage readers to conflate autobiography and fiction, thereby undermining the potential of fiction and the creative agency of women authors. In addition to working on the internet, Martins teaches and researches contemporary Latin American literature and film, ecocriticism, environment, and translation. 

Her article, “Bottled Up: Index, Capture, and the Case for Perfume as Media,” which explores what media studies can understand about itself through perfume as an edge-case that resists established notions of the collapse of space, time, and representation, is forthcoming in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. She has recently edited a volume of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation on contemporary Brazilian fiction and poetry, where you can find an excerpts of her translations of Clarah Averbuck’s autofictional internet novel, Maquína de pinball [Pinball machine] and of Natércia Pontes’ novel, Os tais caquinhos [Those little shards]. 

Select Publications

• “Bottled Up: Index, Capture, and the Case for Perfume as Media,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Special issue “But Is It Media?” edited by Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bo Ruberg. Forthcoming December 2025.

• Editor of Absinthe 30: Brazil With an ‘S’, “Introduction” + translation of selections from Natércia Pontes’ Os tais caquinhos and Clarah Averbuck’s Máquina de pinball, December 2024.

• Book Review: “Julia Havas’ Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television” for New Review of Film and Television Studies, February 2024.

Education

• PhD, Comparative Literature + Digital Studies
  University of Michigan

• MA, Comparative Literature 
  University of Toronto

• BA, Literature
  American University Honors College