Consultation hour
Summer term 2026: Tuesday 3 - 4 pm (prior registration by e-mail is requested)
Research
Habilitation project:
Identities and Religions in the Literature of the Caribbean: Haiti and Cuba (1880 - 1945)
Main research interests:
- Literature and religion/ mysticism/ fundamental philosophical issues in theology
- Literature of the turn of the century and the avant-garde in the Hispano- and Francophone Caribbean
- Argentine literature
- Hispano-American women's literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
- French theatre of the 20th century
- French literature of the fin de siècle
Academic career
| Since October 2024 | Assistant professor at the Chair of Spanish and French Literature and Cultural Studies (Prof. Schuchardt), University of Regensburg Habilitation project: Identity concepts and religions in the literature of the Caribbean: Haiti and Cuba (1880 - 1945) |
| 2016 | Publication of the dissertation and award of the doctoral degree |
| 2014 | Doctorate in romance languages and literature. (Minor Subject: Comparative Literature)
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| 2014-2024 | Member of the teaching staff at the Chair of French and Spanish Literature (Prof. Teuber/Prof. Schneider), LMU Munich |
| 2011-2024 | Lecturer for Spanish at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literature, LMU Munich |
| 2005-2007 | Assistant to the Chair of Literary Theory (Prof. Duranona/Prof. Lastra Paz), Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina |
| 2005 | Degree Licenciada en Letras (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina) |
| 2001 | Degree Profesora en Letras (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina) |
Publications
Monographs
2016: La recepción creadora de la tradición mística en la lírica de Dámaso Alonso. Un poeta metafísico moderno? Tübingen: Narr Francke.
Essays
2026: "Transferencias y productividad romántica en María (1867) de Jorge Isaacs: Chateaubriand y Saint-Pierre en la literatura fundacional colombiana", Estudios de Teoría Literaria 36, pp. 25-35. DOI: id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s23139676/ln3jya3fm.
2025:"Cultural translation en la poesía finisecular de Cuba y Haití: el Modernismo y la Génération de la Ronde", Letras 92, pp. 57-70.
2025: "Fate or free will? The reception of Greek religion in Jean Cocteau's La machine infernale (1934)", Religions 16/7: 892. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.3390/rel16070892. (external link, opens in a new window)
2025: "La belleza del bien. Aproximación a la estética medieval en Gonzalo de Berceo y en Dante Alighieri", in: Mirar hoy lo estético en la edad media. Estudios sobre la belleza, ed. V. Tirado San Juan et alii, Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 105. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 359-371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.5.143759. (external link, opens in a new window)
2024: "Signale und Funktionen unzuverlässigen Erzählens in Silvina Ocampos Cornelia frente al espejo", in: S. Burnautzki/ J. Welge (Ed.): Unzuverlässiges Erzählen: New looks at narrative strategies in romance literatures. Mimesis, vol. 102. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 131-154. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.1515/9783110799637-00. (external link, opens in a new window)
2024: "Die Funktion der Affekte bei der Selbst- und Alteritätscharakterisierung und bei der Hybridisierung vom Bericht in Ruy Díaz de Guzmáns La Argentina", in: D. Brunke/ H. Schlieper (Ed.): Einsatz der Affekte. On the Writing of European Expansion. Poesis, vol. 6, Paderborn: Brill/Fink, pp. 157-174. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.30965/9783846768754_009. (external link, opens in a new window)
2024: "Espacios y mise en abyme en Lucía Miranda (1860) de Eduarda Mansilla: hacia una deconstrucción del mito de la cautiva blanca", Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 72, no 1, pp. 277-308. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v72i1.3933. (external link, opens in a new window)
2023: "La cautiva blanca en la literatura y en la historiografía: su función en la configuración de la identidad hispanoamericana", in: VV.AA.: Cultura, identidad y tensiones. Reflexiones en torno a la comunidad de habla española. Madrid: Dykinson, pp. 177-200.
2023: "Borges y su lectura subversiva de la Divina Comedia", Études romances de Brno n° 44.1, pp. 295-310. DOI: doi.org/10.5817/ERB2023-1-17 (external link, opens in a new window).
2023: "Tomás de Aquino y Francisco Suárez en el Tratado Providencia de Dios de Francisco de Quevedo", Espíritu n° 165, pp. 139-153. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.63534/2938-3994.165.2023.139-154.kruse. (external link, opens in a new window)
2022: "Pervivencia del discurso colonial y fijación de fetiches raciales y culturales en la literatura argentina de la postindependencia: la generación literaria de 1837", Iberoromania n° 95, pp. 114-138. DOI: https: //doi.org/10.1515/iber-2022-0009. (external link, opens in a new window)
2022: "San Juan de la Cruz, discípulo de la Escuela de Salamanca: Su poesía como síntesis de ciencia, arte y virtud", in: D. Torrijos-Castrillejo/J. Gutiérrez (Eds.): La Escuela de Salamanca: La primera versión de la modernidad. Madrid: Sindéresis, pp. 135-148.
2022: "La mística de la materia en la poesía de José Ángel Valente", in: R. Fine et. al. (Eds.): Mundos del hispanismo: una cartografía para el siglo XXI: AIH Jerusalén 2019. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert.
2021: "Entre catarsis y religación: Una relectura de la obra lírica de Silvina Ocampo", Artifara n°21.1, pp. 177-207.
2020: "Migración y transculturación del tópico del león reverente y agradecido en la literatura fundacional rioplatense de Ruy Diaz de Guzmán", RILCE 36, n°1, pp. 356-370.
2018: "Poesía arraigada y noche oscura en la lírica de Blas de Otero", Hipogrifo 6, n°2, pp. 461-474.
2016: "La metáfora poética en la poesía teresiana", Actas del Congreso interuniversitario Santa Teresa de Jesús, Ávila, pp. 669-682.
Teaching
University of Regensburg
| Summer term 2026 | "In Search of Identity: Literature in Postcolonial Haiti" "Cuban literature of modernism and the avant-garde" |
| Winter term 2025/26 | "La poésie engagée de Jacques Prévert: Paroles (1946)" "Basic seminar in Spanish literary studies" |
| Summer term 2025 | "Religion(s) and identity(ies) in Latin American literature of the 20th century" "Female writing in the 19th century in Spain and Hispano-America" |
| Winter semester 2024/25 | "Introduction to Spanish literary studies" |
LMU Munich
| Summer semester 2024 | "Intermediality in Hispanic poetry" |
| Winter term 2023/24 | "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" |
| Summer term 2023 | "Of discoveries and shipwrecks: Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Columbus" |
| Winter term 2022/23 | "Love poetry in the Siglo de Oro" |
| Summer term 2022 | "Spanish and Hispano-American Romanticism" |
| Winter term 2021/22 | "Spanish theatre of the 20th century" |
| Summer semester 2021 | Introduction to Spanish Literary Studies, accompanying course to Introduction to Spanish Literary Studies, "Intermediality in 20th century Spanish literature |
| Winter semester 2020/21 | "Intermediality in Hispano-American literature (19th-20th century)" |
| Summer term 2020 | "The Latin American cuentos fantásticos" |
| Winter semester 2019/20 | "Hispanic American women's literature" |
| Summer semester 2019 | "Neophantasticism in Hispanic America" |
| Winter term 2018/19 | "Dante in the Argentine narrative of the 20th century" |
| Summer semester 2018 | "French poetry of the 19th century in modernismo hispanoamericano" |
| Winter semester 2017/18 | "The relato policial in Argentinian narratives" |
| Summer semester 2017 | "Female writing: from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to Alejandra Pizarnik" |
| Summer semester 2016 | "El modernismo latinoamericano" |
| Winter term 2015/16 | "Romanticism and Naturalism in Argentinian Literature of the 19th Century" |
Winter semester 2014 - summer semester 2025: Regional studies Hispanoamerica
Awards and scholarships
| 2016 | Postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Salamanca "Captación de talento joven de la Cátedra de Altos Estudios del Español de la Universidad de Salamanca" for a research project on female writing in Argentinian Romanticism |
"Europa como espacio de la mise en abyme del mito argentino de la cautiva blanca en la Lucía Miranda (1860) de Eduarda Mansilla"
Lectures
| 2026 | 15. Franco-Romance Studies Day, University of Kassel
3.Research colloquium of the Northern Campus for French and Francophone Studies (CaNoFF (external link, opens in a new window)), University of Bremen
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| 2025 | 39. Romance Studies Day, University of Konstanz
XXIV Hispanic Studies Day, University of Hamburg
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| 2023 | IV Congreso Internacional Formas y Fórmulas de Tratamiento en el Mundo Hispano-Luso, Universidad de Cádiz
XXIII Hispanists' Day, University of Graz
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| 2022 | Simposio "Mirar hoy lo estético en la Edad Media", Universidad San Dámaso, Madrid/ Universidad de Lublin, Polonia
I Congreso Internacional hispanoamericano, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid
II Jornada de Filosofía sitae: "Santo Tomás y la Filosofía Moderna", Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona
Research colloquium at the Ruhr University Bochum
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| 2021 | Séptimo Foro Virtual: El Futuro de las Universidades II, Universidad Autónoma de México
Congreso La Escuela de Salamanca y su proyección iberoamericana
Speculative fiction and ethics. 12. Annual conference of the Society for Fantastic Research, University of Cologne/ Bamberg
IX Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Hispanistas del Benelux, University of Antwerp
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| 2019 | XX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, University of Jerusalem
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| 2018 | Performing Cultural Translatio/s in and with Literature, UC Berkeley
Colloquium: Recent Tendencies in Latin American Literatures, LMU Munich
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| 2017 | XXI German Hispanic Conference, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
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| 2016 | Ethnographies of the Everyday. Perspectives on Costumbrismo, UC Berkeley
Cátedra de Altos Estudios del Español, Universidad de Salamanca
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| 2015 | Congreso Interuniversitario Santa Teresa de Jesús, Universidad Católica de Ávila
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Contact us
Dr. Elisabeth Kruse
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
- E-mail address: elisabeth.kruse(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
- Tel: +49 941 943 3370 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
- Location: PT, 3.3.14
- Important information: Sprechstunde: Mittwoch, 12 - 13 Uhr in Präsenz