Professor von Contzen | Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen

von contzen CHAIR FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE

Managing Director of the Mittelalterzentrum (MAZ)

eva.voncontzen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
☎ +49 761 203-3317 // 203-97336

R 4206 | KG IV

PROJECTS | PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

2017 – 2022
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
ERC Starting Grant
www.listlit.uni-freiburg.de

   2014 – 2017
   Medieval Narratology
   Scientific network, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-Netzwerk)
   www.medieval-narratology.de

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Since 2023	Professor of English Literature English Department \| University of Freiburg
2017 – 2023	Tenure-Track Professor English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
2015 – 2017	Assistant Professor English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
2013 – 2015	Assistant Professor English Department \| Ruhr University Bochum Chair: Prof. Dr. L. A. J. R. Houwen
2013 – 2014	Junior Fellow Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
2012 – 2013	Assistant Professor (Substitute) English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
2009 – 2012	Research Assistant Collaborative research project: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad (critical edition and commentary; funded by the DFG) Department of Classical Philology \| Ruhr University Bochum Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Glei

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I have taught a variety of courses and supervised B.A. and M.A. theses on (aspects of) narrative theory, literary history, medieval literature, and pragmatics and discourse analysis in relation to literary texts.

MEMBERSHIPS / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Member of the DFG-Netzwerk 'Methodologies of Economic Criticism' (since 2021)
Antragstellerin of the research training group 'Factual and Fictional Narration' – GRK 1767 Faktuales and fiktionales Erzählen – at the University of Freiburg.

In addition, I am a member of the advisory committee Beiträge zur mediävistischen Erzählforschung (BmE).

EDUCATION

2012	PhD (summa cum laude) Thesis title: "Of Sinners and Saints. Towards a Pragma-Narratological Approach to the Scottish Legendary"
2006–2007	Visiting Student National University of Ireland, Maynooth
10/2004–09/2009	M.A. in English and Classics Ruhr University Bochum

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

Since 04/2020	Member of the "Junges Kolleg" of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (The Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz)
2018	Visiting Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (4 months)
2016	Member of the Young Academy of Europe (Academia Europeana) Postdoctoral Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, 12-month stay at the University of St Andrews (rejected) Winner of the Phelan Prize for Best Essay in Narrative: "Why Medieval Literature Does Not Need the Concept of Social Minds"
2015 – 2016	Member of the Intercontinental Academia (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Studies) Sao Paolo and Nagoya
2015	Member of the "Junges Kolleg" of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
2014 – 2016	Recipient of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fast Track programme scholarship: Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science