Juliane Römhild
Biographic Data
| ID | 1683774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliane Römhild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliane |
| FAMILY NAME | Römhild |
| SIGNATURE | RÖMHILD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Equal footing, equal voice
Over the last two decades evidence has been mounting for the effectiveness of arts interventions as public health measures. With mental health services under-resourced and overwhelmed by need, support is growing for a diversity of non-clinical approaches to support individuals in community settings. In their declaration of the organisation's collective vision, the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) emphasises the need for diverse …
Restorative Play
This article outlines the findings from research project into community reading groups (Shared Reading) at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Evaluating the potential of Shared Reading to aid in the societal recovery from extensive lockdowns during the pandemic, three themes have emerged: participants found the groups broadened their minds after the diminished intellectual stimulation during social isolation; brought them a sense of calm and focus; …
The body at the receiving end of political power. An interview with Bagryana Popov
The text of this interview is based on a conversation between Bagryana Popov and Juliane Römhild on 1 September 2021. In this interview, Bagryana discusses two works which unite her research into political trauma and site-specific performance in the context of political repression under the communist regime in Bulgaria. For her choreography He is not here and the performance event Traces (2011) Bagryana returned to Sofia, the city of her birth, t…
States of upheaval
Pandemic fiction as therapeutic play
This article explores the therapeutic potential of narrative fiction during a global health crisis. We focus on The Decameron Project (2020), a collection of short fiction by writers from around the world, commissioned by the New York Times Magazine. The Decameron Project references the narrative framework established by Giovanni Boccaccio in the mid-14th century, when the Black Death devastated Europe. Drawing on aspects of psychoanalytic theory…
Maternal Flapping’
To Elizabeth von Arnim, her experience of motherhood was associated with a particularly German coupling of sentimentality and brutality. This article explores the nexus between sentimentality, motherhood, German ideology, and the concept of Kultur in von Arnim’s letters to her daughter Beatrix von Hirschberg. Spanning close to forty years, this correspondence, read in conjunction with von Arnim’s short sketch ‘Christmas in a Bavarian Village’ (19…
Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today
An overview essays of the work of Elizabeth von Arnim -- a recently reclaimed author
So that my soul may have time to grow’
This article discusses the Romantic and Transcendentalist roots of Elizabeth von Arnim’s joyful retreat from the world in The Solitary Summer (1899). By exploring how von Arnim incorporates themes and ideas from William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau, it situates von Arnim’s concepts of joy and happiness in the Aristotelian tradition of eudaemonia and shows how the practice of mindfulness turns Elizabeth’s garden into an ongoing project of se…
Pandemic fiction as therapeutic play
This article explores the therapeutic potential of narrative fiction during a global health crisis. We focus on The Decameron Project (2020), a collection of short fiction by writers from around the world, commissioned by the New York Times Magazine. The Decameron Project references the narrative framework established by Giovanni Boccaccio in the mid-14th century, when the Black Death devastated Europe. Drawing on aspects of psychoanalytic theory…
Reading Elizabeth von Arnim Today
An overview essays of the work of Elizabeth von Arnim -- a recently reclaimed author
So that my soul may have time to grow’
This article discusses the Romantic and Transcendentalist roots of Elizabeth von Arnim’s joyful retreat from the world in The Solitary Summer (1899). By exploring how von Arnim incorporates themes and ideas from William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau, it situates von Arnim’s concepts of joy and happiness in the Aristotelian tradition of eudaemonia and shows how the practice of mindfulness turns Elizabeth’s garden into an ongoing project of se…
Maternal Flapping’
To Elizabeth von Arnim, her experience of motherhood was associated with a particularly German coupling of sentimentality and brutality. This article explores the nexus between sentimentality, motherhood, German ideology, and the concept of Kultur in von Arnim’s letters to her daughter Beatrix von Hirschberg. Spanning close to forty years, this correspondence, read in conjunction with von Arnim’s short sketch ‘Christmas in a Bavarian Village’ (19…
The body at the receiving end of political power. An interview with Bagryana Popov
The text of this interview is based on a conversation between Bagryana Popov and Juliane Römhild on 1 September 2021. In this interview, Bagryana discusses two works which unite her research into political trauma and site-specific performance in the context of political repression under the communist regime in Bulgaria. For her choreography He is not here and the performance event Traces (2011) Bagryana returned to Sofia, the city of her birth, t…
States of upheaval
Pandemic fiction as therapeutic play
This article explores the therapeutic potential of narrative fiction during a global health crisis. We focus on The Decameron Project (2020), a collection of short fiction by writers from around the world, commissioned by the New York Times Magazine. The Decameron Project references the narrative framework established by Giovanni Boccaccio in the mid-14th century, when the Black Death devastated Europe. Drawing on aspects of psychoanalytic theory…
Restorative Play
This article outlines the findings from research project into community reading groups (Shared Reading) at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Evaluating the potential of Shared Reading to aid in the societal recovery from extensive lockdowns during the pandemic, three themes have emerged: participants found the groups broadened their minds after the diminished intellectual stimulation during social isolation; brought them a sense of calm and focus; …
Equal footing, equal voice
Over the last two decades evidence has been mounting for the effectiveness of arts interventions as public health measures. With mental health services under-resourced and overwhelmed by need, support is growing for a diversity of non-clinical approaches to support individuals in community settings. In their declaration of the organisation's collective vision, the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) emphasises the need for diverse …
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Bibliotherapy (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)