She researches in the areas of contemporary women filmmakers and feminist and LGBT iterations in film and television. Her book Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films is in press (IB Tauris 2016). Essays by her on these subjects appear in anthologies from McFarland (Queer TV in the Twenty-First Century 2016), SUNY (Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: Biopics and American National Identity 2016), and Palgrave (Queer Love in Film and Television 2013), and in journals which include Continuum, Continuum, a/b: Auto/Biography, Screening the Past and many others. With School colleagues, Julia currently co-leads the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities research theme, Technologies of Memory and Affect.