Phone:  465-1225

Office:  LA3030

Email:  jgalbus@usi.edu

Julia Galbus, an associate professor of English, teaches composition, American literature, autobiography, contemporary fiction and literary theory.

Professor Galbus’ scholarship combines three overlapping areas: American literature, autobiography, and African American literature since the Black Arts Movement. She has recently presented papers at conferences such as the Modern Language Association, Furious Flower (2004), and the American Literature Association. Recent publications appear in Edith Wharton Review and Obsidian III. She was the keynote speaker for the International American Studies Conference, hosted by Minsk State Linguistic University and the Department of State in Belarus in 2003. For a short sample of Galbus' writing, click here.

Dr. Galbus has taught at the University of Southern Indiana since 1997. For six years, she directed the Humanities Program, drawing on her interdisciplinary education. She earned her doctorate in American literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her dissertation examined five twentieth-century American women writers who critiqued Plato's philosophy through literature. Previously, she earned master's degrees in literature and philosophy from Marquette University, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy with Spanish and literature minors from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

She is currently working on a book about the genre of memoir within American literature begun in spring 2006 while she had a Lilly Excellence for Engagement Sabbatical. In November, she will present a paper about James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces at the Midwest Modern Language Association meeting.  

When she has a chance, she loves to travel both domestically and abroad. She has visited more than a dozen countries in North America and Europe, and lived for a summer in Salamanca, Spain