Dr. phil. Florian Lützelberger

Assitant Professor (non-tenured)

For the academic year 2025/2026 (until October 2026), I am based at the University of Oxford as a Beaufort Visiting Research Fellow (https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/our-academics/lecturers-and-research-fellows/dr-florian-lutzelberger). 

I remain fully available for all matters relating to academic advising (e.g. credit transfer, etc.), the supervision of theses (I continue to supervise ongoing projects and am happy to take on new ones!) and all other academic and administrative matters. Office hours and similar appointments can, however, only be offered digitally for the time being. Please feel free to contact me via my Bamberger Mail-Adresse or via florian.lutzelberger(at)mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.

Short CV, Memberships etc.

11/25
Winner of the University of Bamberg's Doctoral Thesis Award

10/25-10/26
University of Oxford, UK

11/24
Winner of the Faculty of Humanities' Award for Excellence in Teaching

since 10/24
Examiner in the Frist State Examination for Teaching (Secondary Schools and Grammar Schools):

  • Written exams in French and Francophone Literary Studies
  • Written exams in Spanish and Hispanic Literary Studies
  • State Examination thesis ("Zulassungsarbeit", MA equivalent) in Spanish and French

since 10/2024
Assistant Professor (non-tenured), Department of Romance Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis); Academic Adviser for Romance Studies (all degree programmes)

10/2020-9/2025

  • Elected Spokesperson of the Early and Mid-Career Academic Staff of the Faculty of Humanities
  • Representativ of the Early and Mid-Career Academic Staff of the Faculty of Humanities on the Faculty Council/Governing Body and the university's Early and Mid-Career Academic Staff Assembly

seit 10/2017
Positions/Deputy Positions in Academic Self-Governance and Representation of Early and Mid-Career Academic Staff on University Committees:

  • Diversity Roundtable (since 12/2024)
  • Working Group and later Quality Circle “Combined Degree Programmes” of the Faculty of Humanities (since 06/2023)
  • Selection Panel for the Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Humanities (2025/2026)
  • Early and Mid-Career Academic Staff Assembly (10/2020-09/2025)
  • Various Appointments and Evaluation Committees
  • Committee for Teaching and Students (until 10/2020)
  • Tuition Fee Commission (until 10/2020)

6/2017-10/2024
Research and Teaching Associate, Department of Romance Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. De Rentiis); Academic Adviser for Romance Studies (all degree programmes)

2016-2017
Freelance Editor and Co-Author, Spanish Editorial Department, C. C. Buchner Verlag, Bamberg

2015-2017
Co-ordinator of the First-Year Induction Days for the Faculties of Humanities and Human Sciences

2014-2017
Student Research Assistant, Department of Romance Literary Studies/Hispanic Studies (Prof. Dr. Rodrigues-Moura)

2014-2017
Student Departmental Representative, Department of Romance Studies

2013-2017
Peer Tutor for Romance Studies at the First-Year Induction Days for the Faculties of Humanities and Human Sciences

2013-2017
Various positions in faculty-wide and university-wide student representation:

  • Student Representative on the Faculty Council/Governing Body of the Faculty of Humanities
  • President of the Student Union for Humanities
  • Spokesperson of the Student Departmental Representatives of the Faculty of Humanities
  • Member of the Selection Panel for the Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Faculty of Humanities)
  • Member of the Committee for Teaching and Students
  • Member of the Committee for Quality in Study and Teaching
  • ...

2012-2017
Student Teaching Assistant in Romance Linguistics, Department of Romance Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Haase) / Department of Romance Linguistics/Hispanic Studies (Prof. Dr. Radatz)
 

Academic Education

since 10/2025
Habilitation (Second Book, Postdoctoral Qualification) in Romance Philology and General and Comparative Literature

7/2024
Completion of Doctorate in Romance Studies, specialising in Literary Studies (summa cum laude/highest distinction; 0,0)

2019
Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, State of Bavaria ("Zertifikat Hochschullehre Bayern) – Foundation Level (60 units) and Advanced Level (120 units)

Autumn/Winter 2018/2019-Spring/Summer 2024
Doctoral studies in Romance Studies/Literary Studies; primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis, within the Bamberg Graduate School for Literary, Cultural and Media Studies

2015-2017
Recipient of the German National Scholarship ("Deutschlandstipendium")

2014-2015
Study of the Grado en Lenguas Modernas y sus Literaturas/Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Granada, Andalusia, Spain

2013-2014
Foreign-Language Assistant (Allemand LV2 & LV3, Histoire de l'art; Lycée and Collège) in the Pays de la Loire, France

2011-early 2018
Studies (BA, Teaching Degree, MA) in Spanish and Hispanic Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German Studies, Cultural Anthropology, History, Comparative Literature and Educational Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg and the Universidad de Granada

Memberships

  • Deutscher Romanistikverband (German Association for Romance Studies)
  • Deutscher Hispanistikverband  (German Association for Hispanic Studies)
  • Deutscher Frankoromanistikverband (German Association for French and Francophone Studies)
  • Sociedad Espa?ola de Literatura General y Comparada (Spanish Society for General and Comparative Literature)
  • Research Network ReCAP – Reproduction: Critical Approaches and Perspectives on Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non)Parenthood
  • Research Group: Reproductive Justice in the United States: Past, Present, Future(s)
  • International Society for First World War Studies
  • Popular & American Culture Association
  • Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
  • Initiative #breiterkanon (Interdisciplinary Project for the Revision and Expansion of the Canon in Literary Studies)
  • Promptus e. V. (Association for the Promotion of Early-Career Researchers in Romance Studies)
  • Bamberg Graduate School for Literary, Cultural and Media Studies

Doctorate and Habilitation (Second Book), Teaching and Research Interests

Habilitation/Second Book Project (in progress):
 

‘Abortion is not a beauiful subject for literature.’ - Alternative Realities of Motherhood and the Childbearing Body: Narratologies of Abortion and Pregnancy Loss Between Autofiction, Social Diversity and Medical Discourse across Contemporay Romance, German-speaking and Anglophone Literature (1980-Present Day) (working title of the monograph)

Venia Legendi sought in: Romance Philology and Generale and Comparative Literature

Mentors/Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee (American Studies, University of Mainz)
Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis (Romance Literary Studies, University of Bamberg)
Dr Hannie Lawlor (Modern Spanish Literature and Film, University of Oxford)

 

Doctoral Project (completed):
 

Sword and Lyre: A Comparative-Theoretical Study of the Representation of War in Modern (Western) European Poetry Written by Soldier-Poets (693 pp., published under the same title with Universit?tsverlag Winter Heidelberger in the Studia Romanica Series in 2026)

(summa cum laude/highest distinction)

Field: Romance Studies, specialising in Literary Studies
Principal Supervisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Dina De Rentiis (University of Bamberg)
Second Supervisor and Examiner: Prof. Dr. Kurt Hahn (University of Graz)
Third Examiner: Prof. Dr. Marina Hertrampf (University of Passau)

Submission: 16 February 2024
Defence: 19 July 2024
 

Teaching and Research Interests:

Systematic and Theoretical:

  • Health and Medical Humanities (esp. discourses of reproduction, oncology and epidemiology/virology)
  • Diversity, Gender and Queer Studies; Intersectional Approaches
  • Autofictional and Autosociobiographical Writing; Women’s and Life Writing
  • Environmental, Biological and Blue Humanities; Human-Animal Studies
  • Kinship, Critical Family/Parenthood, Motherhood and Fatherhood Studies
  • Intertextuality and Intermediality (esp. in poetry)

Historical and Thematic:

  • Literature (esp. poetry) and the arts in times of war and crisis; discourses of pain and violence in literature, art and media from the Middle Ages to the present
  • European literatures from the 18th century to the present (esp. Modernism and Contemporary Writing)
  • Literatures (esp. the novel) of the Francophone world (esp. North Africa), Hispanic America (esp. Argentina) and North America in the 20th and 21st centuries
  • History and theory of Spanish-, French- and German-language poetry from Renaissance to the present
  • Reception of antiquity and mythology in 20th and 21st century novels
     

Teaching

Spring/Summer 2026

  • Seminar: Reproductive Medicine and Reproductive Justice: Discourses, Practices, and Narratives in the Literatures and Cultures of Europe, Latin and North America and the Francophone World

Autumn/Winter 2025/2026

  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2025

  • Lecture: “She Had the Human Gaze of a Tamed Animal” – Human-Animal Relations, Animal Agency, Animal Ethics and Posthumanist Perspectives (Introduction to Human-Animal Studies)
  • Seminar: Mother, Father, Child? Cultural, Literary, Social, Medical and Political Dimensions of Parenthood, Kinship and (Alternative) Family Concepts (Introduction to Parenthood and Kinship Studies) (team teaching with the Department of Cultural Anthropology)

Autumn/Winter 2024/2025

  • Seminar: The Enlightenment as a European Project: Literature, Art, Architecture, Music […] of the Eighteenth Century Between Sensibility, Emancipation, Curiosity and Reason
  • Seminar: The Modern Metropolis in the Literature and Arts of the Francophone and German-Speaking World (19th/20th Centuries) (team teaching with the Department of Modern German Literary Studies)
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2024

  • Seminar: Of Life and Death. Literary and Artistic Constructions and Conceptualisations of Illness, Medicine and the Pandemic (Introduction to the Biological and Medical Humanities)
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2023/2024

  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2023

  • Seminar: Intersectionality and Diversity: Gender, Class, Race, Age, Disability […] as Political and Social Perspectives on the Romance Literatures, Arts and Contemporary Societies in the 21st Century (Introduction to Diversity Studies and Intersectionality Research)
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2022/2023

  • Seminar: “I Am Circe” – Female and Queer Rewritings of Classical Mythology in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Art and Media
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2022

  • Seminar/Lecture: Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Literary History: Poetry, Theatre and Prose from the Middle Ages to the Present
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2021/2022

  • Seminar: “?tre ethnologue de soi-même”: Gender Norms, Social Conditions and the Individual Existence in the Works of Annie Ernaux
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2021

  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2020/2021

  • Lecture/Seminar: Introduction to Romance Literary Studies and Literary Theory (French, Spanish, Italian)
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2020

  • Seminar: From Hermeneutics and Discourse Analysis to Biopoetics and Queer Studies: Applied Literary Theory
  • Seminar/Lecture: Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Literary History: Poetry, Theatre and Prose from the Middle Ages to the Present
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2019/2020

  • Seminar: Terror and Beauty: The Spanish Civil War in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Film and Arts
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2019

  • Seminar/Lecture: Introduction to French and Francophone Literary History: Poetry, Theatre and Prose from the Middle Ages to the Present
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2018/2019

  • Seminar: (Her)Stories of Womanhood and Femininity: Women in French and Spanish Literary and Cultural History (Introduction to Feminist Literary Studies and Gender Studies)
  • Seminar: Spain’s Golden Age: Literature, Art, Culture and Society in the Siglo(s) de Oro

Spring/Summer 2018

  • Seminar: Highlights of Spanish Poetry: an Introduction to Working with Lyric Texts
  • Seminar/Lecture: Introduction to French and Francophone Literary History: Poetry, Theatre and Prose from the Middle Ages to the Present
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Autumn/Winter 2017/2018

  • Seminar: Literature, Art and War: Spain, France and Germany in the 20th Century
  • Seminar/Lecture: Exam Preparation Course in Literary Studies: Spanish/Latin American and French/Francophone Poetry and Theatre from the Renaissance to the Present

Spring/Summer 2017

  • Seminar/Lecture: Introduction to French and Francophone Literary History: Poetry, Theatre and Prose from the Middle Ages to the Present
  • Seminar: Academic Writing and Research Methods in Romance Literary and Cultural Studies

Publications, Presentations, Organisation

All titles of presentations, conferences, seminars and publications originally in languages other than English have been translated into English for ease of reference. The original language(s) of delivery and/or the working language(s) of the respective panel, conference or publication are indicated in parentheses after each entry. For the original titles, please switch to the German version of this page.

Organisation:

  • with Vera Lucía Wurst (FU Berlin): Section “?Madre hay una sola? Contemporary and Historical Realities, Deconstructions and Discourses of Motherhood(s) in the Spanish, Latein American and Transatlantic Context /Experiencias, deconstrucciones y discursos históricos y contemporáneos de maternidades en el contexto espa?ol, hispanoamericano y transatlántico”, 25th Annual Convention of the German Association for Hispanic Studies: Hispanic Studies across the Atlantic: Relations – Worlds – Pathways, University of Augsburg; 9-13 March 2026. (Spanish/German)
  • with Dr. Laura Wiemer (Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal): Section “Textual Territory: Space as Resource and the Resources of Space in French and Francophone Literatures/Terrirtoire textuel. L’espace comme ressource et les ressources de l’espace dans les littératures fran?aise et francophone”, 15th Annual Convention of the German Association for French and Francophone Studies: Ressources, University of Kassel; 29 September-2 October 2026. (French/German)
  • with Prof. Dr. Vicente Luis Mora (Universidad de Málaga): Panel “Cognición y poesía II. Poéticas del cuerpo-mente/ Cognition and Poetry II. Poetics of the Mind-Body”, III Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/3rd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, Universidad de Salamanca; 1-3 July 2026. (Spanish/English)
  • with Laura Castillo Bel (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Panel “Cognición y poesía III. Humanidades Médicas/Cognition and Poetry III. Medical Humanities”, III Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/3rd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, Universidad de Salamanca; 1-3 July 2026. (Spanish/English)
  • with Ana Pérez Paniagua (Universidad de Salamanca): Panel “Intertextualidad I. Apropiación y desmitificación en el discurso poético desde la antigüedad hasta la modernidad/Intertextuality I. From Antiquity to Modernity: Appropriation and Demystification within the Poetic Discourse”, III Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/3rd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, Universidad de Salamanca; 1-3 July 2026. (Spanish/English)
  • With Jorge Ruiz Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Panel “Política y poética I. La proliferación de los paradigmas sociopolíticos en el lenguaje poético/Politics and Poetics I. The Proliferation of Sociopolitical Paradigms within the Poetic Language”, III Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/3rd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, Universidad de Salamanca; 1-3 July 2026. (Spanish/English)
  • Panel “Metaphors, Modernity and Meaning of Illness”, International Conference on Medical Humanities at the London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research/Birkbeck, University of London; 14-15 March 2026.
  • Sektion “Meat and Meaning: Animal Ethics and the Meat Industry in Contemporary Literature and Visual Media”, 57th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 5-8 March 2025. (English)
  • Sektion “Water Lore and Blue Humanities: Water as Habitat and Matter in Literature and Film”, 57th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 5-8 March 2025. (English)
  • with Sofie Dippold, Susen Halank, M.A. (both: University of Bamberg), Tabea Lamberti, M.A. (University of Jena): Interdisciplinary Conference Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies: Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Mind, Illness and Health in Literature and Media from the 19th to the 21st Century, University of Bamberg; 30 September-2 October 2025. (German/English)
  • Panel “Queering Health”, Interdisciplinary Conference Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies: Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Mind, Illness and Health in Literature and Media from the 19th to the 21st Century, University of Bamberg; 30 September-2 October 2025. (German/English)
  • with Edelweiss del Rey García (Universidad de Salamanca): Panel “Hibridaciones I. Tras los límites del verso/Hybridizations I. Beyond the Boundaries of the Verse”, II Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/2nd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics at the Universidad de Salamanca; 2-4 July 2025. (Spanish/English)
  • with Dr. Christian Baier (Seoul National University): Panel “The Return of Myths in 21st Century: How Cultural Narratives Shape Reality”, Conference: Narrative Matters. Crisis, Conflicts, and the Possibility of Hope at the Université Paris Cité and the American University of Paris; 13-16 May 2025. (English)
  • with Dr. Katrin Betz, Clemens Maria Odersky and Dr. Tanja Prohl (University of Bamberg): XXXVI Young Forum for Romance Studies: Old and New – New Sources, Old Questions/Old Sources, New Questions, University of Bamberg; 31 March 2021. (German/Spanish/French/Italian)
  • with Clemens Maria Odersky and Dr. Tanja Prohl (both University of Bamberg): Summer School: Experiencing Culture: Cultural Education in Romance Studies, University of Bamberg; 3-6 September 2019.
  • Section “Romance Cultural Studies and Cultural Education”, Summer School: Experiencing Culture: Cultural Education in Romance Studies, University of Bamberg; 3-6 September 2019. (German/Spanish/French/Italian)
  • Planning and Execution of the Literary Exhibition ‘Building Bridges’ on the Works of Spanish Guest Artists and Authors (Department of Romance Literary Studies/Hispanic Studies) in collaboration with the University Library Bamberg and the International Artists’ House Villa Concordia, incl. opening event; 1 October-10 November 2014. (German/Spanish)
  • Co-organisation of the International Symposium Literature in Portuguese America: Authors – Texts – Readers (Department of Romance Literary Studies/Hispanic Studies); 5-6 June 2014. (Portuguese/English/German)

     

Conference Papers/Presentations:

  • “‘[C]on ma?a, valor y esfuerzo.’ Critique of Masculinity and the Valorisation of Femininity in Spanish Women's Theatre of the Enlightenment: Mariana Caba?as: Las mujeres solas (1757) (and a Glance at Several Texts by Isabel María Morón, Joaquina Comella and María Rosa de Gálvez)”, 7th Transphilological Annual Conference Femmes de Lettres of the FONTE Association: Spaces of Knowledge: Narratives of Female Self-Determination in Staged Dialogues by European Women Authors of the Early Modern Period, Humboldt University Berlin; 9 October 2026. (German)
  • “‘?[Q]uién sabe lo que esconde una reliquia?’ The Last Words of the Body: Suicide, Intertextuality and the Materiality of the Word in Pol Guasch's Reliquia (2026)”, VI Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores de la Sociedad Espa?ola de Literatura General y Comparada: Cuerpos Textuales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 16-17 September 2026. (Spanish)
  • mit Dr Hannie Lawlor (University of Oxford): “‘Darle otro cuerpo a lo que ya tenía cuerpo’: Relational Life Writing, the Polyphony of Voices and the Making of a Collective Archive in Dahiana Belfiorio's Código Rosa (2015)”, 11th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature: Ethics of Affect: Rethinking the Text and the World, University of Leeds; 24-28 August 2026. (English)
  • “‘ovum | seed | womb | sac | apple | [heart] | face | child’: Narrating Miscarriage in Contemporary Hispanophone and Anglophone Poetry”, III Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/3rd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, Universidad de Salamanca; 1-3 July 2026. (English)
  • La jungle de Calais: Queer Intimacy, Alienation, Contrary Spaces and Identities in Alejandro Simón Partal's La parcela (2021)”, Conference: Topographies of Asylum: Spatial Dimensions of (Trans)national Asylum Practices in German, French and Spanish Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, University of Passau; 26-27 June 2026. (German)
  • “‘cuánta ausencia hay en toda maternidad’ – The Diversity of Motherhood, Relational Narration and the Interplay of Individual and Collective Experience in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature on Abortion and Miscarriage”, Romance Literatures Research Seminar (Prof. Dr. Benjamin Loy), LMU Munich; 24 June 2026. (German)
  • with Elliot Koubis (University of Oxford): “Becoming ‘Another’: Class Shame, Queer Shame, Kinship and the Politics of Transformation in ?douard Louis and Spyros Chairetis”, Conference: Shapes of Shame in Literature, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia; 15-16 June 2026. (English)
  • “‘a world of strangers […] emotionally literate in each other’s experience’: Abortion, Affective Regimes and Counterpublic Life – Theoretical Approaches on Reading Abortion in 21st Century French Literature”, First Network Meeting: Pregnancy, Birth, and (Non)Parenthood: Critical Approaches to Reproduction of the Research Network ReCAP, University of Bonn; 8-9 May 2026. (English)
  • “Visible Inivisibility and the Counterpublics of Shame: Reading Abortion through Berlant, Boltanski and Illouz”, Conference: Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam; 23-24 April 2026. (English)
  • “Sword and Lyre: Or: Why Poems from War Still Matter to Us” as holder of the Doctoral Thesis Award, at the Rotary Club Bamberg – Schloss Geyersw?rth; 2 April 2026. (German)
  • “‘Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir.’ Relational Narration and Female Genealogies: Abortion, Miscarriages and the Interplay of Individual and Collective Experience in Contemporary European Women’s Writing”,International Conference on Medical Humanities, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research/Birkbeck, University of London; 14 March 2026. (English)
  • “‘?De qué materia están hechas las ausencias?’ – The Diversity of Motherhoods, Relational Narration and the Interplay of Individual and Collective Experience in the Context of Miscarriage and Abortion in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature”, Spanish Research Seminar, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford; 10 March 2026. (English)
  • ?Desire and Devouring: Eating Disorders and the Poetics of Consumption in Contemporary Spanish Women’s Writing”, Oxford Queer Intersections Series, Schwarzman Centre for Humanities, University of Oxford; 2 March 2026. (English)
  • “‘Abortion is not a beautiful subject for literature.’ – Alternative Realitites of Motherhood and the Childbearing Body: Narratologies of Abortion and Pregnancy Loss Between Autofiction, Social Diversity and Medical Discourse across Contemporary Romance, German-speaking and Anglophone Novels and Short Stories”, Lady Margaret Hall SCR Early Career Research Event, University of Oxford; 2 December 2025. (English)
  • “Intersectional Perspectives on Eating Disorders in Contemporary Spanish Literature: Almudena Grandes’ Malena, una vida hervida (1996) and Andrea Abreu’s Panza de burro (2020)”, Conference Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies, University of Bamberg; 1 October 2025. (German)
  • “Human, Animal, Monstrous Machinery: Capitalist Choreographies of the Meat Industry and Industrialised Slaughter in Agustina Bazterrica's Cadáver exquisito (2017) und Lucie Ricos Le chant du poulet sous vide (2020)”, 39th Annual Conference of the German Association of Romance Studies: Continuity and Change, University of Konstanz; 22 September 2025. (German)
  • “‘La enfermedad me rompió como un viento / me arrancó las palabras, / quebró mis ramas, / mi entereza de árbol’ – The Poetics and Corporeal Language of Cancer in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Poetry”, II Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/2nd International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, Universidad de Salamanca; 3 July 2025. (Spanish)
  • “‘Ethnologie de soi-même’ and Another Reality of Motherhood: Reflections on the Modes of Narrating Abortion in French Autosociobiographical Literature of the 21st Century”, Conference: Autosociobiographies and Autotheories of Mothers, University of Passau; 14 June 2025. (French)
  • “‘You are many all on your own.’ Medusa’s Metamorphoses from Antiquity to Contemporary European, North and Latin American Literature and Political Culture” Conference: Narrative Matters. Crisis, Conflicts, and the Possibility of Hope, Université Paris Cité and American University of Paris; 14 May 2025. (English)
  • “The Queer Male Body in the Context of HIV/AIDS: Public (Visual) Discours and Intimate (Literary) Narratives (French, Swiss, and English Literature and Visual Culture)”, 25th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture & American Culture Association, New Orleans, Louisiana; 17 April 2025. (English)
  • “The Human Body as Shared Space: Bodily Enhancement, Posthumanism, Mental Health, and the Critique of Captialism in Mireille Gagné's Le lièvre d'Amérique (2020)”, Conference Shared Space. Animal-Human Interactions Across Environments, Princeton University, New Jersey; 28 March 2025. (English)
  • “‘Tenía la mirada de un animal domesticado’ – Animals, Humans and Everything in Between in the (Post-)Pandemic World of Argentinian Writer Austina Bazterrica’s Cadáver exquisito (2017)”, 56th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 8 March 2025. (English)
  • “Fighting Shame and Trauma Through Female Solidarity, Writing the Body and Collective Creativity: Abortion and Miscarriage in Contemporary Spanish, French and Italian Autofictional and Autobiographical Novels”, 56th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 9 March 2025. (English)
  • “Emotional Imbalances: The Connection of Sexual Identity, Body Image, Eating Disorder and Depression, Class, and Other Dimensions of Diversity in Andrea Abreu’s Panza de burro (2020)”, 56th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 9 March 2025. (English)
  • “Stop Men! Women's Rights, Critique of Misogyny, Colonial Violence, Intolerance and Feudalism in Women’s Theatre and Thought in 18th Century Spain, France and England:  María Rosa Gálvez (Safo), Mariana Caba?as (Las mujeres solas), Olympe de Gouges (Zamore et Mirza, ou l'heureux naufrage and the Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)”, Seminar: Women Playwrights of the 18th and 19th Centuries led by Sofie Dippold, University of Bamberg; 27 January 2025. (German)
  • “Female Solidarity and Collectivity as a Form of contre-mémoire in Plays by 21st Century Spanish Women Dramatists: Itziar Pascual, Juana Escabias and Laila Ripoll”, Seminar: ‘Outliving systems of tyranny’; Hemingway, Iberian Contemporaries, and the Spanish Civil War, led by Susen Halank und Dr. Nicole Konopka, University of Bamberg; paper presented at the Teatro Espa?ol in Madrid; 8 January 2025. (German)
  • “Isolation, Stigma, Solidarity and Polyphony: Other Realities of the Childbearing Body and Contemporary (Auto[socio])Fictions of Abortion and Miscarriage from Italy, France and Spain”, Conference: Thinking with Space: The Body in Space, Space (With)in the Body, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań; 11 December 2024. (German)
  • “‘Play your game and string the lyre / […] I’m like Prometheus, finally taking back my fire.’ – Revisiting the Myth of Medusa in 21st Century (Popular) Literature and Politics”, Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA; 9 November 2024. (English)
  • “Written with the Bayonet, Analysed Along a Simple Thread: Reading Modern Combat Poetry Through the Lense of Family Resemblance and Prototype Theory”, Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA; 7 November 2024. (English)
  • Interview “Shards of Reality: Florian Lützelberger on Trauma in the Modern Poetry of Western European Soldiers” with Stefanie Mayer, Podcast Fabulari, University of Vienna; published 9 July 2024. (German)
  • “A New Comparative Approach on Modern War Poetry: Family Resemblance, Prototype Theory and Dynamic Networks”, I Congreso Internacional de Teoría de Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas/1st International Conference on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics at the Universidad de Salamanca; 4 July 2024. (English)
  • Rethinking and Rereading Modern European War Poetry: Family Resemblances, a Network of Similarities”, XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture: Culture at War, Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa – School of Human Sciences; 27 June 2024. (English)
  • “Textures of Pain and Realities of the Childbearing Body: Motherhood and Miscarriage in the Literary and Illustrative Work of Paula Bonet: Roedores/Cuerpo de embarazada sin embrión (2018), La anguila (2021) und Los diarios de la anguila (2022)”, XXXIX Young Forum for Romance Studies: Critical Perspectives in Romance Studies, University of Hamburg; 21 March 2024. (German)
  • “The Need to Talk about ‘It’ – Narrating Abortion in Contemporary French Literature: Annie Ernaux’s L’événement (2000) and Pauline Harmange’s Avortée. Une histoire intime de l’IVG (2022)”, 55th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Boston, Massachusetts; 10 March 2024. (English)
  • “‘Deux camps, deux formes de vie possibles’ – Mapping the World Along the Axes of Education and Gender in Contemporary Francophone Narrative Literature: Annie Ernaux, Assia Djebar and Marie NDiaye (La honte; L’amour, la fantasia; Trois femmes puissantes)”, 2nd International Study Day: Gender and Education in the Global South (Global Action Day for the Universal Right to Education (Malala Day)), University of Wuppertal; 12 July 2022. (German)
  • “(No) Space for Diversity? – Spatial Sociology, Gender and Social Belonging in the Narrative Work of Annie Ernaux (La honte; La femme gelée; Regarde les lumières, mon amour)” XXXVII Young Forum for Romance Studies: Romania diversa. Potentials and Challenges, University of Vienna; 13 April 2022. (German)
  • “Wars and Conflicts as a Creative Moment, Human Abysses as the Origin of Poetic Creation – a Diachronic Study of the Aesthetics of (Western) European War Poetry – Research Outline”, Research Seminar of Romance Literary Studies (Prof. Dina De Rentiis), University of Bamberg; 14 May 2019. (German)
  • “Femininity and Space in Federico García Lorca”, for Sixth-Form classes at the Johannes-Turmair-Gymnasium Straubing, in the subject of Spanish; 21 March 2019. (German)
  • “Federico García Lorca’s Tragedias Rurales: References to the Theatre of the Siglo de Oro and Greek Tragedy in Bodas de Sangre, Yerma und La Casa de Bernarda Alba, 3rd Meeting of the Network Siglo de Oro, Free University of Berlin; 11 May 2018. (German)
  • “Image-Text Interactions in Times of War: Intermediality in the War Poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire, Miguel Hernández and Bertolt Brecht”, XXXIV Young Forum for Romances Studies: Interaction(s): Ruptures, Traces, Constructions, University of Mannheim; 28 March 2018. (German)
  • “Reading Apollinaire’s Calligrammes. Poèmes de la Paix et de la Guerre as an Attempt at Processing the Horrors of War”, Conference: War and Trauma in Past and Present, University of Bamberg; 11 March 2018. (German)
  • “Intermedial Practices in the European War Poetry of the 20th Century” as a scholarship holder on the occasion of the award of the German National Scholarship, at the Rotary Club Bamberg – Schlo? Geyersw?rth; 13 April 2017. (English)
  • “Linguistic Conflict and Linguistic Normalisation – Concept and Reality in Valencia”, Symposium of the International Research Centre for Iberian Studies, Universidad de Alicante; 27 September 2015. (Spanish)

Conference Papers/Presentations:

1) Monograph:

  • Sword and Lyre: A Comparative-Theoretical Study of the Representation of War in Modern (Western) European Poetry Written by Soldier-Poets (Studia Romanica 248). Winter: Heidelberg 2026 (603 pp.). (German)

2) Edited Volumes:

  • with Dr. Laura Wiemer (University of Wuppertal): Textual Territory: Space as Resource and the Resources of Space in French and Francophone Literatures, exp. 2027. (forthcoming) (French/German)
  • with Dr. Agnieszka Balcerzak (LMU Munich): Special Issue “Abortion: Narratives, Practices, Discourses/Schwangerschaftsabbruch: Narrative, Praktiken, Diskurse”, Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinanthropologie/Journal of Medical Anthropology, exp. 2026. (forthcoming) (English/German)
  • with Dr. Agnieszka Balcerzak (LMU Munich): Special Issue “Pregnancy Loss: Narratives, Practices, Discourses/Schwangerschaftsverlust: Narrative, Praktiken, Diskurse”, Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinanthropologie/Journal of Medical Anthropology, exp. 2026. (forthcoming) (English/German)
  • with Sofie Dippold, Susen Halank (both Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg), Tabea Lambert (Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena): Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies: Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Mind, Illness and Health in Literature and Media from the 19th to the 21st Century (Reihe Medical & Health Humanities). Berlin/Boston 2026. (forthcoming) (English/German)
  • with Katrin Betz, with the assistance of Susen Halank (both Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg): Old & New: Contributions to the XXXVI Young Forum for Romance Studies in Bamberg (Series Young Forum for Romance Studies 27). Munich 2025. (German/Spanish/French/Italian)

3) Articles/Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed):

  • with Sofie Dippold, Susen Halank and Tabea Lamberti: “Narrating Illness, Negotiating Difference: Medical Humanities and Diversity Studies in Dialogue”, in: Dippold, Sofie et al. (eds.): Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies: Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Mind, Illness and Health in Literature and Media from the 19th to the 21st Century (Reihe Medical & Health Humanities). Berlin/Boston 2026. (forthcoming) (German)
  • “‘He decidido ponerme a régimen, mama[.]’ Intersectional Perspectives on Eating Disorders and Body Image in Contemporary Spanish Literature: Almudena Grandes’ Modelos de mujer (1996) and Andrea Abreu’s Panza de burro (2020)”, in: Dippold, Sofie et al. (eds.): Medical Humanities & Diversity Studies: Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Mind, Illness and Health in Literature and Media from the 19th to the 21st Century (Reihe Medical & Health Humanities). Berlin/Boston 2026. (forthcoming) (German)
  • “Human, Animal, Monstrous Machinery: Capitalist Choreographies of the Meat Industry and Industrialized Slaughter in Agustina Bazterrica’s Cadáver exquisito (2017) and Lucie Rico’s Le chant du poulet sous vide (2020)”, in: Arango Vallejo, Alvaro; Gerrits, Rogier; Mayer, Stefanie (eds.): Of Humans and Other Monsters. Technology and Monstrosity in Romance Cultures. Berlin/Boston, exp. 2027 (English). (English)
  • “The Human Body as Shared Space: Bodily Enhancement, Posthumanism, and the Critique of Captialism in Mireille Gagné's Le lièvre d'Amérique (2020)”, Special Issue of Humanimalia. A Journal of Human-Animal Interface Studies on the topic of Shared Spaces, exp. 2027 (forthcoming). (English)
  • “‘This is not the Time for Poetry.’ In Defence of (Contemporary) War Poetry as Peace Work – Or: Why Volha Hapeyeva Is Right”, in: Fürholzer, Katharina (ed.): Literature as Peace Practice: Narrative Spaces Between War, Geopolitics, and Survival, exp. 2027 (forthcoming).
  • “‘?De qué materia están hechas las ausencias?’ The Diversity of Motherhoods, Relational Narration and the Interplay of Individual and Collective Experience in the Context of Miscarriage and Abortion in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Literature”, in: Cuadernos de Aleph, Special Issue: “Escrituras de la carne/Writings of the Flesh”, vol. 20 (2026) (forthcoming). (English)
  • “‘La enfermedad me rompió como un viento / me arrancó las palabras, / quebró mis ramas, / mi entereza de árbol’ – The Poetics and Corporeal Language of Cancer in Contemporary Spanish and Hispanic-American Poetry”, in: Bermúdez, Víctor et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the II International Congress on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, exp. 2026 (submitted). (Spanish)
  • “Relational Narration and Female Genealogies: Tendencies in Contemporary Auto(socio)biographies and Autofictional Writing on Abortion and Miscarriage in France, Spain and Italy”, in: Pytel-Bartnik, Ewa et al. (eds.): Thinking with Space: The Body in Space, Space in the Body. Wiesbaden 2026 (forthcoming). (German)
  • “The Need to Talk about ‘It’: Narrating Abortion in Contemporary French Literature Between Collective Bioethical Dilemma and Female Subjectivity”, in: Thomas, Lisa; Prabhu, Aloke (eds.): Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights. Leiden 2026 (forthcoming). (English)
  • “A New Theoretical Approach on Modern War and Combat Poetry: Family Resemblance, Prototype Theory and Dynamic Networks of Similiarities”, in: Bermúdez, Victor et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the II International Congress on Lyric Theory and Comparative Poetics, exp. 2026 (forthcoming). (English)
  • ? [?] voix basse, les yeux rivés au sol, et sans trop entrer dans les détails ?: Reflections on the Narration of Abortion and the Refusal of Motherhood in French Autosociobiographical Literature of the 21st Century”, in: Hertrampf, Marina (ed.): Autosociobiographies and Autotheories of Mothers. Munich 2025, pp. 177-189. (French)
  • “Textures of Pain and Realities of the Childbearing Body: Motherhood and Miscarriage Between Intimacy and Rawness in the Illustrative and Literary Work of Paula Bonet: Roedores/Cuerpo de embarazada sin embrión (2018) und Los diarios de la anguila (2022)”, in: Brinkmann, Lisa Marie et al. (eds.): Critical Perspectives in Romance Studies: Contributions to the XXXIX Young Forum for Romance Studies in Hamburg (Series Young Forum for Romance Studies 30). Munich 2026, pp. 51-68.
  • “Mapping the World Between Dualisms, Lists and Diversity: Gender, Class and Space in Annie Ernaux (La honte; La femme gelée; Regarde les lumières, mon amour)”, in: Bartl, Tamara et al. (eds.): Romania diversa: Potentials and Challenges. Contributions to the XXXVII Young Forum for Romance Studies in Vienna (Series Forum Junge Romanistik 28). Munich 2024, pp. 33-54.
  • “Old and New: New Sources, Old Questions – Old Sources, New Questions for an Emerging Romance Studies?”, in: Betz, Katrin; Lützelberger, Florian; Odersky, Clemens Maria (eds.): Old & New: Contributions to the XXXVI Young Forum for Romance Studies in Bamberg (Series Young Forum for Romance Studies 27). With the assistance of Susen Halank. Munich 2025, pp. 3-12.
  • “‘Hay muchas maneras de estar muerto’ – Metatheatricality, Intertextuality, memoria histórica and universality in Sanchis Sinisterra’s ?Ay, Carmela! (1986)”, in: Lohse, Rolf; Müller-Lüneschlo?, Christiane (eds.): Drama, Post-Drama and Intermedial Play: Theatre Tendencies in the Romance-Speaking World (Theatre Studies 1) [Proceedings of Section 6: Tragedy, Comedy and…? Drama Genres in the Romance-Language World from 1968 to the Present at Annual Conference of the German Association of Romance Studies 2019 at the University of Kassel]. Bonn 2022, pp. 77-98.
  • “Federico García Lorca’s ?Trilogía dramática de la tierra espa?ola? as a Node of Continuity and Change from Antiquity to Netflix: Tradition, Adaptation, Innovation, Inspiration”, in: Koch, Christian et al. (eds.): Promptus. Würzburg Contributions to Romance Studies 6. Würzburg 2020, pp. 131-155.
  • “Image-Text Interactions in Times of War: Intermediality in the War Poetry of the 20th Century – Guillaume Apollinaire, Miguel Hernández und Bertolt Brecht”, in: Kuschel, Daniela et al. (eds.): Interaction(s): Ruptures, Traces, Constructions: Contributions to the XXXIV Young Forum for Romance Studies in Mannheim (Series Young Forum for Romance Studies 25). Munich 2022, pp. 29-48.
  • “Re-Reading a Classic of French Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes. Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre as an Attempt at Processing the Horrors of War?”, in: Manghi, Chiara; Spychala, Mareike; Strempel, Lina (eds.): War and Trauma in Past and Present. An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays. Trier 2019, pp. 65-78.
  • “One Man’s War Is Another Man’s War – Is Everyone’s War? The Spanish Civil War in the Poetry of Alberti, Arendt, Brecht and Hernández”, in: Molina Taracena, Pilar (eds.): The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War. A comparative perspective. Dublin 2019, pp. 135-152.
  • “Apollinaires Calligrammes. Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre – an Attempt at a Modern Reading Between Psyche and Aesthetics”, in: Eisodos. Journal for Literature and Theory. vol. 5 (2018): issue 1, pp. 20-37.

4) Shorter Contributions, Reviews, Encyclopaedia Entries: 

Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (Kindler’s Literary Encyclopaedia, all entries in German):

  • “Bazterrica, Agustina: Cadáver exquisito”, in: Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (eds.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, exp. 2027 (forthcoming).
  • “Bazterrica, Agustina: Biographical Note”, in: Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (eds.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, exp. 2027 (forthcoming).
  • “Sanchis Sinisterra, José: ?Ay, Carmela!”, in: Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (eds.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, 2026, URL: https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_23827-1.
  • “Sanchis Sinisterra, José: Biographical Note”, in: Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (eds.): Kindlers Literatur Lex-ikon, 2026, URL: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_23826-1.

Anno. Das Magazin für Medienjubil?en (Anno. Journal of Media Anniversaries, all articles in German):

  • “Manners and Morals of French Society? Honoré de Balzac and the Comédie Humaine” (vol. 11 (2025), pp. 140–141).
  • “Guy de Maupassant’s Novellas and their Revival through the nouvelle critique” (vol. 11 (2025), pp. 138–139).
  • “1975 as a Cultural Turning Point for Spain: The End of the Dictatorship and the Beginning of the Transición” (vol. 11 (2025), p. 43).
  • “Tragic Victim of Fascism. Fighter for Justice and Architect of his House Among the Stars: Federico García Lorca” (vol. 10 (2023), pp. 128–129).
  • “From Former World Empire to Identity Crisis and Profound Turning Point: the Desastre del 98, the Gener-ación del 98 and the Consequences for the Spanish Literary and Cultural Landscape” (vol. 10 (2023), pp. 116–117).
  • “Satirising and Critiquing Courtly Convention and Communication: Molière’s Comedies” (vol. 9 (2022), pp. 150–152).
  • “A Turbulent Life Leben Between Dadaism, Surrealism, Communism, Socialism and Pacifism: The Life and Work of Louis Aragon” (vol. 9 (2022), pp. 110–111).
  • “The Narrator’s Detachment or the Author’s Disgust? – Gustave Flaubert’s Realism and the ?ducation sentimentale” (vol. 8 (2021), pp. 106–107).
  • “Chronicler of the Horrors of War – Francisco de Goya and his Work” (vol. 8 (2021), pp. 115–116).
  • “Intoxication and Revolt – Charles Baudelaire and the Fleurs du Mal” (vol. 8 (2021), pp. 104–105).
  • “Cyrano de Bergerac – The States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun Between Enlightenment and Fan-tasy” (vol. 7 (2019), pp. 159–161).
  • “The Best of All Possible Worlds? – Voltaire and his Work” (vol. 7 (2019), pp. 153–154).
  • “The Eye of Paris – Robert Doisneau and Humanist Photography” (vol. 7 (2019), pp. 26–27).
  • “‘Edle Einfalt, stille Gr??e’ – Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Classical Aesthetics” (vol. 6 (2018), pp. 138–139).
  • “Gaston Leroux – the Creator of the Phantom of the Opera” (vol. 6 (2018), pp. 112–113).

Review:

  • Review of Meidl, Martina: Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938). Franz?sische Front- und Veteranenlyrik der Grande Guerre (The Language of Endured War (1914–1938): French Front-Line and Veterans' Poetry of the Grande Guerre) (Mimesis 113). Berlin/Boston 2026, in: First World War Studies, 17.3, 2026 (forthcoming). (English)