Dr Florian Lützelberger

I am Assistant Professor of Romance Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany. I studied Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish/French), German Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Education, History, and Cultural Anthropology in Bamberg and Granada, Spain. 

I finished my doctorate in Romance Literary Studies in 2024. My thesis focused on late modern European war poetry and received summa cum laude and the University of Bamberg’s Dissertation Award.

My current second-book project explores narratologies of abortion and pregnancy loss in contemporary French and Francophone, Spanish and Hispanophone, Italian, Anglophone and Germanophone literature. As a Beaufort Visiting Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages/the Spanish Sub-Faculty I am going to work on this project in Oxford for the academic year 2025/2026. This work is mentored in part by Dr Hannie Lawlor, whose generous support makes my stay in Oxford possible.

I research and teach primarily in the following areas:

• Medical/Health Humanities
• Diversity Studies (gender, queer, disability, class, race, …)
• Kinship, Parenthood, and Motherhood Studies
• Human-Animal Studies; Environmental and Blue Humanities
• European war poetry and cultural responses to war and crisis (15th–21st centuries)
• Modern and contemporary French, Spanish/Hispanophone, and Francophone literatures
• Life writing, auto-sociofiction and autofiction (esp. Ernaux, Eribon, Louis and Schneck)
• Queer and feminist re-writings of classical mythology

My recent teaching includes:

• Introduction to Human-Animal Studies (Lecture Series, SS 2025)
• Mother, Father, Child? Parenthood, Kinship and Alternative Family Concepts (Seminar, SS 2025)
• Of Life and Death. Literary and Artistic Constructions of and Reflections on Medicine, Illness and the Pandemic (Seminar, SS 2024)
• Intersectionalities and Diversities: Gender, Class, Race, Age and Disability in Contemporary Romance Literatures (Seminar, SS 2023)
• Female and Queer Myth Réécriture in 20th and 21st Century Literature and Media (Seminar, AW 2022/23)
• Introductions to and lectures on French/Francophone and Spanish/Hispanophone Literary and Cultural History (from the Renaissance to 21st century)

“Texturen des Schmerzes und Realitäten des gebärfähigen Körpers. Mutterschaft und Fehlgeburt zwischen Intimität und Rohheit im illustratorischen und schriftstellerischen Werk Paula Bonets: Roedores/Cuerpo de embarazada sin embrión (2018) und Diarios de la anguila (2022)”, in: Brinkmann, Lisa Marie et al. (Eds.): Kritische Perspektiven in der Romanistik. Beiträge zum XXXIX. Forum Junge Romanistik in Hamburg (Reihe Forum Junge Romanistik 30). Munich 2025.

(“Textures of Pain and the Realities of the Pregnant Body. Motherhood and Pregnancy Loss in Paula Bonet’s Literary and Visual Work: Roedores/Cuerpo de embarazada sin embrión (2018), La anguila (2021) and Diarios de la anguila (2022)”)

“Die Vermessung der Welt zwischen Dualismen, Listen und Diversität: Geschlecht, Klasse und Raum bei Annie E-naux (La honte; La femme gelée; Regarde les lumières, mon amour)”, in: Bartl, Tamara et al. (Eds.): Romania diversa. Potentiale und Herausforderungen. Beiträge zum XXXVII. Forum Junge Romanistik in Wien (Reihe Forum Junge Romanistik 28). Munich 2024. 

(“Measuring the World Using Dualities, Lists, and Diversity: Gender, Class, and Space in Annie Ernaux ((La honte; La femme gelée; Regarde les lumières, mon amour)”)

“Hay muchas maneras de estar muerto – Metatheatralität, Intertextualität, memoria histórica und Universalität im Teatro Fronterizo anhand von Sanchis Sinisterras ¡Ay, Carmela! (1987)”, in: Lohse, Rolf; Müller-Lüneschloß, Christane (Eds.): Dramatik, Postdramatik und intermediales Spiel. Theatertendenzen in der Romania (Theaterstudien 1) [Akten der Sektion 6: Tragödie, Komödie und…? Dramengattungen im romanischen Sprachraum von 1968 bis heute beim Romanistentag 2019 an der Universität Kassel]. Bonn 2022, pp. 77-98. 

(“Hay muchas maneras de estar muerto – Metatheatricality, Intertextuality, Memoria Histórica, and Universality in the Teatro Fronterizo. The Case of Sanchis Sinisterra’s ¡Ay, Carmela! (1987)”)            

“Federico García Lorcas «Trilogía dramática de la tierra española» als Knotenpunkt von Kontinuität und Wandel von der Antike bis zu Netflix: Tradition, Adaption, Innovation, Inspiration”, in: Koch, Christian et al. (Eds.): Promptus. Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik 6. Würzburg 2020, pp. 131-155. 

(“Federico García Lorca’s ‘Trilogía dramática de la tierra española’ as a Connection Point of Continuity and Change from Antiquity to Netflix: Tradition, Adaptation, Innovation, Inspiration”)                  

“Re-Reading a Classic of French Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire's Calligrammes. Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre as an Attempt at Processing the Horrors of War?”, in: Manghi, Chiara; Spychala, Mareike; Strempel, Lina (Eds.): War and Trauma in Past and Present. An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays. Trier 2019, pp. 65-78.            

“La guerra del uno, la guerra del otro, ¿la guerra de todos? – La Guerra Civil española en la poesía de Alberti, Arendt, Brecht y Hernández”, in: Molina Taracena, Pilar (Ed.): La poesía de la guerra civil española: una perspectiva comparatista. Dublin 2019, pp. 135-152. 

(“One man’s war is another man’s… war, is everyone’s war? – The Spanish Civil War in the Poetry of Alberti, Arendt, Brecht and Hernández”)            

Forthcoming

Monograph

Schwert und Lyra: Eine komparatistisch-theoretische Studie zur Modellierung von Krieg in moderner (west-)europäischer Kriegslyrik aus der Feder schreibender Soldaten. Heidelberg 2025. (forthcoming)

(Sword and Lyre: A Comparative-Theoretical Study on the Construction and Depiction of War in Modern (Western) European War Poetry Written by Soldier Poets.)

Edited Volume

(with Sofie Dippold, Susen Halank, and Tabea Lamberti): Medical Humanities und Diversity Studies – Intersektionen medizinischer und diversitätskritischer Diskurse und multidimensionale Perspektiven auf Körper, Psyche, Krankheit und Gesundheit in Literatur und Medien des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts. Boston/Berlin 2026. (forthcoming)

(Medical Humanities and Diversity Studies – Intersections of Medical and Diversity-Critical Discourses and Multidimensional Perspectives on Body, Mind, Illness and Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Literature and Media) 

Chapters and articles (related to my second book project)

“Relationales Erzählen und weibliche Genealogien. Tendenzen gegenwärtiger Auto(sozio)biographien und autofiktionalen Schreibens über Schwangerschaftsabbruch und Fehlgeburt in Frankreich, Spanien und Italien”, in: Pytel-Bartnik, Ewa et al. (Eds.): Mit dem Raum denken. Körper im Raum. Raum im Körper. Wiesbaden 2025. (forthcoming).

(„Relational Narration and Female Genealogies: Tendencies in Contemporary Auto(socio)biographical and Autofictional Writing on Abortion and Miscarriage in France, Spain, and Italy“)

“The Need to Talk about ‘It’: Narrating Abortion in Contemporary French Literature Between Collective Bioethical Dilemma and Female Subjectivity”, in: Thomas, Lisa; Prabhu, Aloke (Eds.): Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights. Cambridge 2025 (forthcoming).

“« [À] voix basse, les yeux rivés au sol, et sans trop entrer dans les détails » : Réflexions sur la narration de l’avortement et du refus de la maternité dans la littérature autosociobiographique française du XXIe siècle”, in: Hertrampf, Marina (Ed.) : Autosociobiographies et autothéories de mères. 2026. (forthcoming)

(“‘In a low voice, eyes fixed on the ground, and without too much detail’: Reflections on the Narration of Abortion and the Refusal of Motherhood in Twenty-First-Century French Auto-Sociobiographical Literature”)