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Olga Springer

Dr Olga Springer is Assistant Professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. She completed her Magister Artium in English and Comparative Literature and her doctoral studies in English Literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

From 2010 to 2012, she worked as DAAD Lektorin at Dublin City University. She was Teacher of German at Sevenoaks School, Kent, UK from 2016 to 2019, where she gained her Postgraduate Certificate of Education from the University of Buckingham. Olga has moreover taught German as a foreign language at the universities of Tübingen and Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Her research interests include literary urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, intertextuality, ambiguity in literary texts, and Victorian literature. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL), of the DCU-based EROSS research network, and of the Scientific Committee of the Society’s journal, CompLit. Her book Ambiguityin Charlotte Brontë’s Villette was published in February 2020.

Book

	Year	Publication
	2020	Olga Springer (2020) Ambiguity in Charlotte Brontë's Villette. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. [Link]

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2015	Le Juez B.;Springer O. (2015) 'Introduction: Shipwrecks and islands as multilayered, timeless metaphors of human existence' In: Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts. [DOI]
	2014	Olga Springer (2014) 'That imprudent Old Person of Chili: Individual and They in Edward Lear’s Limericks' In: Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature. Dublin : Four Courts Press. [Link]

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2015	Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer (Ed.). (2015) Shipwreck and island motifs in literature and the arts. Leiden: Brill \| Rodopi, [Link] [DOI]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2022	Hilary Potter and Olga Springer (2022) 'German Literature and Film, 1990 to the Present' German Literature and Film, 1990 to the Present, 82 (1) :510-519. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-08201027
	2018	Olga Springer (2018) 'Gesunde neue Welt? Juli Zehs Roman Corpus Delicti' 5 (1) :22-25.

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2013	Olga Springer (2013) 5th REELC/ENCLS International Congress: Islands and Continents: (Re)constructions of Identity *Islands of the Imagination in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette* Funchal, Madeira, 26/09/2013- 28/09/2013 [Link]
	2011	Olga Springer (2011) Literary Dislocations [4th International REELC/ENCLS Congress, September 1-3, 2011, Skopje and Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia] . In: Sonja Stojmenksa-Elzeser eds. *A Study in Intertextuality: The Pilgrim’s Progress in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor (1845/57) and Villette (1853)* [Link]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2022	Olga Springer (2022) International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) ‘Elusive Bodies’: Liminal Urban Spaces in Works of Haruki Murakami and Irina Denezhkina Tbilisi, Georgia and online, .
	2021	Olga Springer (2021) Urban (Im)mobilities and Borderland Narratives Border crossings and liminal urban spaces in Margaret Atwood Online conference, .
	2020	Olga Springer (2020) Connecting the Dots: Conceptualizing Trace in the Nexus of Novels and Readers' Sensory Imaginings This conference is designed to shed new light on the analysis of novel reading experiences by examining in what manner the concept of trace offers a key to readers’ willingness to engage with, and emotionally respond to, novels. In this spirit, this symposium sets out to investigate the interaction between trace and reading as facets of interpretive processes actively engaging the recipient in creative acts of sensory imagination Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (online), 24/09/2020-25/09/2020.
	2020	Olga Springer (2020) In Extremis: The Limits of Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the ways in which the fundamental understanding of embodied human life and consciousness was challenged by developments in science and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries University College Dublin, 10/01/2020-11/01/2020.

Reports

	Year	Publication
	2019	Olga Springer (2019) Harvard Institute of World Literature. Colloquium 9: Production, Circulation and World Literature. REPORT

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée	Newsletter Editor	30/09/2015 - 30/09/2022
	International Baccalaureate	Assessment Author for German A: Literature	02/06/2020 - 16/11/2021

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Executive Committee of the European Society of Comparative Literature/Société Européenne de Littérature Comparée	I was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the ESCL/SELC in September 2019.	01/09/2019 - 01/09/2022