Olga Springer

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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
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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