Specializing in African Diasporic literatures and cultures, he has particular interests in performance studies, visual culture, sound studies, and medicine—especially where they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Julius is currently completing his first book manuscript, entitled “Black Patience: Performance and the Civil Rights Movement.” His work appears in Callaloo, American Literary History, Text and Performance Quarterly, The James Baldwin Review, and The Southern Quarterly. From 2016-2018, Julius will be in residence at the University of Virginia as a Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellow.