Julia Tulke

Julia Tulke (she/they) is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Emory University’s Institute for the Liberal Arts. Located at the intersection of urban studies, visual culture, and cultural anthropology, Dr. Tulke’s work centers on the visual and spatial politics of crisis, with Athens, Greece as her central site of engagement. Their research in and on the city since 2013 has grappled with various forms of “crisis creativity,” including political street art and graffiti, queer and feminist protest, and artist-run spaces. Since relocating to Atlanta in 2023, she has found much inspiration in the city’s creative and political ecologies, probing various currents of public art and visual activism as they relate to the complex negotiation of meaning, belonging, and power amid urban transformation.

 Dr. Tulke’s research and teaching are anchored by a set of shared commitments: the integration of scholarly and creative modes of knowledge production, a centering of place-based and community-engaged approaches, as well as responsive engagement with contemporary crisis situations. At Emory, she has brought these values to bear on courses in Interdisciplinary and American Studies, including Visual Culture, Qualitative Methods, Graffiti and Public Art, and Creativity as Scholarship, as well as various collaborative programming endeavors.