Dr. Regine Strätling

Dr. Regine Strätling is a literary scholar with a focus on romance literatures as well as literary theory and comparative literature and has been a research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Isabella von Treskow since 2024.

Biography

Main research areas

Ludic aesthetics
History and theory of autobiography
Western European intellectual history of the 20th century
Mediality of mourning

University activity

09/2024-06/2025
Assistant professor at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Regensburg (Chair of Prof. Dr Isabella von Treskow), after 06/2025 still associated

2022 until today
Professeure invitée DAAD at the Université de Montréal, affiliated with the Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes (CCÉAE) and the Études allemandes department of the Département de littératures et de langues du monde (suspended from 01.09.2024 to 31.05.2025)

2015-2022
Assistant professor in the Department of Comparative European Ethnology / Comparative Literature at the Institute of German Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Chair Prof. Dr Christian Moser)

2007-2015
Initially DFG postdoctoral fellow, then assistant professor and coordinator at the International Research Training Group "InterArt", Freie Universität Berlin

Degree programme

Studied literary theory and comparative literature, philosophy and French at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université de Paris III.

2007 Doctorate (summa cum laude) at the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation: Figurationen. Rhetoric of the body in the autobiographies of Michel Leiris.

Memberships

Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes (CCÉAE), Université de Montréal - Member of the Board of Directors and the Scholarship Committee
German Society for Literary and Comparative Literature (DGAVL)
French Romance Studies Association
German Studies Association (GSA)
German Society for Aesthetics (DGÄ)
Heimito von Doderer Society

Teaching

Regine Strätling has taught around fifty comparative, Romance, German language and literature and interdisciplinary courses at BA, MA and doctoral level. The teaching formats included tutorials, seminars, advanced seminars, plenary sessions and workshops. She specialises in literary history and literary theory since the 18th century as well as the relationship of literature to other art media and forms of knowledge.

She taught at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin until 2015, at the Institute of German Language and Literature, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 2015 to 2022, at Université de Montréal (Études allemandes and Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes) since 2022 and at the University of Regensburg since the winter semester of 2024.

She has also taught as a short-term guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and the University of St Andrews.

Lectures at the University of Regensburg

Summer term 2026

Reflecting on Regional Identity: Bavaria and Québec (workshop and exercise; together with PD Dr. Dagmar Schmelzer)

Summer term 2025

Narrating between cultures: Gorizia as a literary space (proseminar; together with Jonas Hock)

The somewhat different European Capital of Culture: Gorizia & Nova Gorica - Due città, tre culture, una storia (excursion; together with F. Fabellini and G. de Savorgnani)

Winter term 2024/25

Introduction to Italian literary studies (exercise)

Participation in the introductory lecture in romance literature (sessions on semiotics and rhetoric)

Participation in the interdisciplinary lecture series Gewalt, Aggression und Konflikt in Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften und Katholic theology (session on French literary studies)

Publication

A complete overview of all publications, editorships and scientific contributions is available for download as a PDF. This provides a compact and convenient way of viewing all the work. Download PDF (external link, opens in a new window)

Lectures

Unpublished public lectures (selection)

2024

Exploring Military Uses of Video Games with Harun Farocki's Serious Games
Lecture at the conference "Playing War. Simulations, Games, Exercises, and the Representations of Military Force and Violence", Regensburg, 27-29 November 2024

2023

L'humoriste Loriot - un sociologue de l'Allemagne par le rire
Introduction to the Loriot evening, Goethe-Institut Montreal, 02.11.2023
Negotiations between Sociology and Literature in German Transclass Autobiographies
Lecture at the GSA conference, Montréal, 08.10.2023
Identity Crises and Sociological écriture in Transclass Autobiographies
Lecture at the IABA conference, Warsaw, 07.07.2023
"New Conditions for Chance" - Play as Political Practice in the Situationists around Guy Debord
Lecture at the DGAVL conference, Potsdam, 31/05/2023

2019

A Question of Framing? On the Relation of Art, Play and Games
Keynote at the opening of the International Summer Academy, University of Vienna, Reichenau, 12/08/2019
Life-Writing and the Formation of Disciplines: Ethnology, Psychoanalysis, and the Diary
Keynote at the IABA conference "Knowing the Self", Madrid, 20/06/2019

2018

The game between openness and rule
Lecture, University of St Andrews, 07.12.2018
Ideological idioms: Alberto Moravia, Roland Barthes and the phrases of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Lecture, Università degli studi di Firenze, 24/09/2018

2017-2015

The Bland and the Pale. Variants and Failures of Far Eastern Exoticism
Lecture, University of St Andrews, 27.03.2017
The Fade. Roland Barthes in China
Lecture, University of Bonn, 15.12.2016
Dialogical Mourning. Aris Fioretos' Halva Solen
Lecture at the IABA Annual Conference, Funchal/Madeira, 27-29 May 2015

2013

Subjectivisation through play
Keynote lecture, Workshop "Automatisms and Play", University of Paderborn, 28-29 November 2013
Autobiographical Voices. Life Writing and the Sonic Turn
Lecture at the IABA Annual Conference, Vienna, 31 October - 3 November 2013

2011-2008

La réception de l'œuvre de Michel Leiris en Allemagne II
Lecture, Université Montpellier III, 24-25 February 2011
On the Mao fascination of French intellectuals
Lecture, University of Bielefeld, 27/06/2011
Autobiographical Spaces, Architectures of the Self: Georges Perec's Strolls
Lecture at the NeMLA Conference, Montréal, 08-11 April 2010
Play Spaces. Modes of literary self-constitution
Lecture, Ruhr University Bochum, 07 November 2010
Autobiographical rules of the game
Lecture, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 25-26 June 2009
Is Shame an Authentic Feeling? The Aesthetics of Exposure of Leiris and Goytisolo
Lecture, Goldsmiths College London, 05-07 March 2008