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Carina Ehrnsperger

Carina Ehrnsperger

Biography

PhD project

Créer, s'engager, écrire - Resilience functions of the camp newspapers L'Exilé, L'Écho du Camp de Rennbahn, In Ruhleben Camp and The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1914-1918)

Research interests

  • Literature, culture and media in captivity
  • Contemporary French literature
  • Gender studies

University activity

2024-2026
Assistant professor at the Chair of French and Italian Literature and Cultural Studies (Prof. Dr. Isabella von Treskow), University of Regensburg

2021-2024
Employee of the University Equal Opportunities Officer for Women in Science and Art
(focus: gender competence, gender consulting and gender studies), University of Regensburg

Studies

2014-2020
First State Examination, Teaching degree for grammar school (French / English), University of Regensburg

Teaching

Winter term 2025/26

  • Robert Desnos: Surrealism and Resistance (project seminar), together with Dr. Regina Schuhbauer (Centre for Remembrance Culture)
  • Grammaire II
  • Grammaire III

Summer term 2025

  • Grammaire II
  • Traduction I (French-German)

Winter semester 2024/25

  • Introduction to French Literary Studies
  • Traduction (French-German), preparatory course

Summer term 2024

  • Breaking Barriers: Towards Gender-Sensitivity in the Classroom

Summer term 2023

  • Gender images in French texts of the 20th century

Winter term 2022/23

  • Introduction to Gender Studies

Summer term 2022

  • Introduction to Gender Studies

Publications

Essays

(Carina Ehrnsperger)

  • "Le 8 mai 1945 en Algérie: Les massacres de Sétif, Kherrata et Guelma". In: Isabella von Treskow (ed.): 8 mai 1945. Le tournant historique et la littérature. Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, France, Allemagne. Mainz: Verlag Donata Kinzelbach, 2025, pp. 162-167.
  • "Le Sommeil du Juste - Tous égaux face aux horreurs de la guerre ?". In: Isabella von Treskow (ed.): 8 mai 1945. Le tournant historique et la littérature. Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, France, Allemagne. Mainz: Verlag Donata Kinzelbach, 2025, pp. 178-180.
  • "Trümmer 45: Les décombres en poésie". In: Isabella von Treskow (ed.): 8 mai 1945. Le tournant historique et la littérature. Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, France, Allemagne. Mainz: Donata Kinzelbach publishing house, 2025, pp. 389-391.
  • "Prisoners in Grafenwoehr: The camp on the military training area in the First World War". In: Oberpfälzer Kulturbund e. V. / Stadt Grafenwöhr (ed.): Oberpfalz trifft Amerika - Heimat auf Zeit. Contributions to regional cultural history. Regensburg: Morsbach Verlag, 2024, pp. 242-247.
  • "Stranded in purgatory. Ethics and migration in Olivier Norek's Entre deux mondes (2017)". With Melanie Schneider. In: Marc Chalier / Gabriel García Fontalvo / Lisa Grandits / Philipp Heidepeter / Anne Pirwitz (eds.): Migration und Transnationalisierung in der Romania. Contributions to the XXXVIII. Forum Young Romance Studies in Passau (12-14 April 2023). [In publication].

Podcast

(Carina Ehrnsperger)

  • "Notre petite feuille sera simplement 'amusante'. Carina Ehrnsperger on camp newspapers of French prisoners of war". Podcast contribution, 5 June 2025.
    https://fabulari.podigee.io/69-neue-episode

Lectures

Lectures (selection)

17. June 2025
"Reliés par-delà les frontières. Art et médias comme catalyseurs de tissages transculturels"
University of Regensburg

13. April 2024
"Cultures croisées en captivité : dynamiques transculturelles dans la presse des camps de la Grande Guerre"
Conference Bridges and Borders: Media (In)Forms, Carnegie Mellon University

15. March 2024
"Form Follows Function ? Camp Newspapers of WW1"
Conference L'engagement au fil du temps. Héritages et transmissions de l'engagement dans les pays de langue allemande (XIXe - XXIe siècles), Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès

14. April 2023
"Les journaux de camps de la Grande Guerre : Témoignages de l'engagement"
XXXVIII. Forum Young Romance Studies, University of Passau

14. April 2023
"Stranded in purgatory. Ethics and migration in Olivier Norek's Entre deux mondes (2017)", together with Melanie Schneider
XXXVIII. Forum Young Romance Studies, University of Passau

19. January 2023
"Coping with Unfreedom in WWI Camps: Cultural Resilience through Magazines"
Conference Unfree Spaces in the Modern World: Resistant Responses - Empowering Acts, University of Regensburg

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