Dr. Lara Ehrenfried

2009-2012 Studium (B.A.) der Anglistik und Germanistik an der Universität Bielefeld

2013-2014 M.A. (Distinction) in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Durham (UK)

2015-2020 Promotion in Englischer Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Durham (UK) im Department für Englische Literaturwissenschaft und am Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).

2015-2020 Stipendiatin des Centre for Visual Arts and Culture und des Leverhulme Trust während der Promotion

2017-2020 Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant am Department für Englische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Durham (UK)

Seit 2021 Wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt in der Frühen Neuzeit Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk, Institut für Englische Philologie, LMU München

Seit 2024 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Gero Guttzeit und Dr. Cord-Christian Casper) Modulleitung des literaturwissenschaftlichen Einführungskurses (LWE)

Seit 2024 Mentee im LMU Mentoring Programm der Fakultät 13 für besonders qualifizierte Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen

Seit 2025 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Nikolina Hatton und Dr. Sophie Franklin) Netzwerkkoordinatorin des internationalen Women Writing Violence Forschungsnetzwerks (WWV Network)

Monographs and Edited Collections

Lara Ehrenfried. 2025. Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Nikolina Hatton, Cord-Christian Casper & Lara Ehrenfried (eds). 2025. Focus On Early Modern Futures. Anglistik 36.3

Essays

Lara Ehrenfried. 2026. “Voicing Class and Status in Mid-Century Fiction“, in Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory, ed. by Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard, Annabel Williams (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

Nikolina Hatton, Cord-Christian Casper & Lara Ehrenfried. 2025. “Introduction: The Plurality of Early Modern Futures“, Focus On Early Modern Futures. Anglistik 36.3, 5-11.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2020. “Synchronized Sound Technology and the British Musical Film in the 1930s”, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945, 16, n.p.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2020. ‘“There’s a song there, really”: Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, the Musical Revue, and Early Sound Film,’ Modern Fiction Studies, 66.3, 423-449.

Rezensionen

Lara Ehrenfried. 2025. “Performative Literary Culture: Literary Associations and the World of Learning, 1200-1700”, Renaissance Quarterly, 78.2, 642-644.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2024. “Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatre of the Air, 1576-1609”, Renaissance Quarterly, 77.2, 723-725.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2018. “The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity”, Modernist Cultures, 13.2, 284-287.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2018. “Words on Screen,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 38.2, 420-422.

Public Engagement and Blog Entries

Lara Ehrenfried. 2022. “Lisa Jardine, Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (1983)”, The Miscellany: The Munich Shakespeare Library Blog, n.p.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2022. “August Wilhelm Schlegel & Ludwig Tieck: The Hamlet Translation”, The Miscellany: The Munich Shakespeare Library Blog, n.p.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2022. “August Wilhelm Schlegel & Ludwig Tieck: Shakespeare’s Dramatische Werke (1825-1833)”, The Miscellany: The Munich Shakespeare Library Blog, n.p.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2022. “Raphael Holinshed’s Historie of Scotlande & William Shakespeare’s Macbeth”, The Miscellany: The Munich Shakespeare Library Blog, n.p.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2021. “Raphael Holinshed’s Historie of Scotlande”, The Miscellany: The Munich Shakespeare Library Blog, n.p.

Lara Ehrenfried. 2021. “The First Folio of Shakespeare”, The Miscellany: The Munich Shakespeare Library Blog, n.p.

Talks and Papers

2026. “Soundscapes of Violence“, Shakespeare’s Sonic World: Sound Studies and Early Modern Theatre, 12th World Shakespeare Congress: Planetary Shakespeares, Verona

2026. “Audio-Vision and Women’s Writing in 1930s Britain and the Weimar Republic”, Transnational Visual Cultures and Literature, 1880s-1945

2025. “Soundscapes of Treason“, FNZ Kolloquium, HU Berlin

2024. “Discord and Disharmony in the Gunpowder Plays“, MedRen Granada

2024. “Harmony and Discord in Elizabethan Drama“, Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium LMU München

2024. “Soundscapes of Treason in the Gunpowder Plays”, LMU-UCB Research Exchange, UC Berkeley

2023. “Early Modern Futures”, Sektionsleitung Anglistiktag 2023, mit Dr. Nikolina Hatton und Dr. Cord-Christian Casper, Siegen

2023. “Connectivity Re-Imagined”, Signal and Sign Workshop, München

2022. “Plotting Noise: Sound Cues in Elizabethan Performance Documents”, RSA 2022: Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America [online]

2022. “The Voice Gap”, Invited Talk, Salzburg [online]

2022. “‘Her body is divided from her head’: Offstage Violence in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613).” Text Exploration Session mit Dr. Nikolina Hatton und Dr. Cord-Christian Casper, Adapting Violence, Bern [online]

2021. “Hitchcock’s Silence”, Sound on Screen, Reading [online]

2018. “Challenges of Interdisciplinary Work”, Symposium of Sound, Durham

2017. “Listening to War: The True Glory (1945) and WWII Soundtracks,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference (MSA 19), Amsterdam

2017. “Sound as Political Device in 1930s Novels and British Documentary Film,” Writing the Divide, Durham

2017. “Silence in Early Sound Film: Hitchcock’s Blackmail,” The Unspoken and the Unspeakable: 1750 – present, Cambridge

2016. “Early Sound Film and the Late Modernist Novel,” British Association for Modernist Studies: New Work in Modernist Studies, London

BA Kolloquium

British Women Writers of the 1930s

History & Theory of British Cinema

Introduction to Literary Studies/Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft

Introduction to the Novel

Introduction to Drama

Reading Evelyn Waugh

Reading Violence in Early Modern Drama

Shakespeare’s Soundscapes

Sound Studies and Literature

The Court Masque

The Novel: Historical and Theoretical Approaches

The Plays of Thomas Middleton

Violent Women in Early Modern Drama

Contrasting Forms of Reader Involvement in American Psycho and The Talented Mr Ripley

Dance, Courtship, and Female Power in Jane Austen’s Ballrooms

Discord and the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s Plays

Marriage and Domesticity in Postwar Fiction: Women’s March Back Home

Mystery and Detection: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Detective Stories and their Modern Inversion

Rethinking Reality: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

Sally Rooney and Marxism: The Contemporary Novel as Political Text

Science and Monstrosity: Frankenstein and Its Modern Adaptation on the Creation of Life

Social Class in the Work of Elizabeth Gaskell

The Corset in the Victorian Era and Neo-Victorian Fiction

The Novel and Film: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

The Representation of Queer Experience in Film and Literature

Women and Femininity in the Works of Sally Rooney and Sayaka Murata

Women’s Voices: Feminist Revisions and Retellings of Greek Mythology

Literatur und Sound Studies, Englisches Theater der Frühen Neuzeit, Klangwelten der Frühen Neuzeit, Musik und Tanz der Frühen Neuzeit, Literatur der Moderne und Spätmoderne (insbesondere der 1920er bis 1950er Jahre) in Großbritannien, Women’s Writing und Autorinnen der Moderne und Spätmoderne, englischsprachige Literatur und Tontechnologien vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, audiovisuelle Medien, Geschichte des britischen Films, Geschichte und Theorie des Romans, Gewaltdarstellungen in Literatur, Theater und Film