Julie Ann Ward (born in Antlers, Oklahoma)^[1] is the first poet laureate of Norman, Oklahoma.^[2][3][1] Norman was the first city in Oklahoma to appoint a poet laureate.^[1] She was born in Antlers, Oklahoma, and grew up in Elko, Nevada and Stillwater, Oklahoma.^[1] She is a graduate of University of Tulsa, University of Kansas and University of California, Berkeley.^[1] She taught at the University of Oklahoma as an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature from 2014 to 2022.^[1]

Works

Books

• Antología abierta de literatura hispana Rebus Community Press 2017.^[4]
• A Shared Truth: The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. ISBN 9780822965886

Articles

• "Entrevista con Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol" Latin American Theatre Review 45:2, pp. 139–146, 2012.
• "Elena Poniatowska:«Dear Diego/Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela». Trans. Nathanial Gardner. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2012." Lucero 22:1, 2012.
• "Self, Esteemed: Contemporary Auto/biographical Theatre in Latin America" University of California, Berkeley. 2013.
• "Documentary dramaturgy in Brazil" Routledge Handbooks Online 2014.
• "Staging Postmemory: Self-representation and Parental Biographying in Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol's El rumor del incendio" Latin American Theatre Review 47:2 pp. 25–44, 2014.^[5]
• "Affective suffrage: Social media, street protests, and theatre as alternative spaces for political self-representation in the 2012 Mexican presidential elections" Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the LusoLuso-Hispanic World 7:2, 2017.^[6]
• "Translator's Note: Crossing Borders" World Literature Today 91:1, p. 7, 2017.^[7]
• Elizabeth Mays, Robin DeRosa, Rajiv Jhangiani, Timothy Robbins, David Squires, Julie Ward, Anna Andrzejewski, Samara Burns, Matthew Moore, "A guide to making open textbooks with students" Rebus Community, 2017
• "Making Reality Sensible: The Mexican Documentary Theatre Tradition, 1968-2013" Theatre Journal 69:2 pp. 197–211, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
• "Beside motherhood: Staging women’s lives in Latin American Theatre of the Real" The Routledge Companion To Gender, Sex And Latin American Culture, pp. 377–385 2018.
• "Escuela de conducción y la posibilidad del fracaso." Biodrama/Proyecto Archivos: Seis piezas documentales de Vivi Tellas. pp. 196–199
• "Julie Ward: More than 6,000 Oklahoma Dreamers in danger." Tulsa World, 2018.^[8]
• "Poetic Justice: An Interview with Ellen Stackable." Oklahoma Humanities ^[9]
• "The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil. By Sarah J. Townsend. Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018;" Theatre Survey 60:3, pp. 477–479, 2019.
• "The Other Southern Border: Mexico's Forgotten Frontier in Nadia Villafuerte's Barcos en Houston (2005)" Revista de estudios hispánicos 53:1, pp. 59–75, 2019.
• "Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin" World Literature Today, 2019.^[10]
• "Opening up Hispanic Literature: An Open-Access Critical Edition Assignment." InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching 15, pp. 122–141, 2020.^[11]
• "Midsommar’s Nordic Nationalism and Neo-Confederate Nostalgia." Film Quarterly 2020.^[12]
• "Humiliation by Paulina Flores.” World Literature Today 2020.^[13]
• "Caminar en zapatos migrantes: la lógica fronteriza de la instalación de realidad virtual Carne y arena de Alejandro González Iñárritu" Investigación Teatral. Revista de artes escénicas y performatividad 12:20, pp. 50–68, 2021.
• "Federico Falco A Perfect Cemetery by Jennifer Croft" World Literature Today 95:2, p. 96, 2021.

Translations

• "Cosmo Girl.” 91:1, pp. 20–23. World Literature Today, 2017.^[14]
• "Turn Around?" Latin American Literature Today, 2017.^[15]