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Julia Margaret Bray (born 28 September 1952) is a British scholar of Oriental studies who specialises in Medieval to Early Modern Arabic literature. From 2012 to 2023, she was the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
julia bray (she/they) is an actor, creator, writer, director & teacher living in Portland, Oregon. Most recently you can catch her in the new Nicolas Cage film, “PIG”.
Solo Work. A sea monster made of garbage threatens guests vacations by eating them and forcing a sometimes funny, often painful reckoning with their repressed emotional trauma and how it’s affected their relationship to the earth.
Biography. I read Arabic at Oxford and wrote my DPhil here on medieval Arabic poetic criticism while working in London on the archives of the British Political Agency, Kuwait. Then I taught Arabic language and literature at Manchester, and pioneered Media Arabic at Edinburgh when the Arabic media were in their pre-electronic infancy.
Julia Bray She writes on medieval to early modern Arabic literature, life-writing, and social history. She has contributed to the New Cambridge History of Islam (2010), to Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1350-1850 (2009), and to cross-cultural studies such as Approaches to the Byzantine Family (2013) and edited Writing and Representation in ...
Julia Bray, University of Oxford, Oriental Studies Department, Faculty Member. Studies Arabic Language and Linguistics, Jewish Studies, and Manuscript Studies. Teaches at Oxford University
Retired Professor of Arabic. Faculty / College Address: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / St John's College. Email: julia.bray@ames.ox.ac.uk. Research Interests: The techniques of medieval Arabic writing and its social and political functions. How poetry and narrative create and explore ideas. Life writing and story telling.
