Professor von Contzen | Curriculum Vitae

Tenure Track-Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen

von contzen Tenure Track Professor she/her
Chair of English Literature | Fludernik

Managing Director of the Mittelalterzentruum (MAZ)

This semester, the MAZ runs a lecture series on “Critical Medievalism” – see the programme here.

Deputy Equal Opportunity Officer, Fakultät für Philologie

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

2017–2021
Antragstellerin Graduate Research School (GRK) 1767 “Factual and Fictional Narration”,
University of Freiburg https://www.grk-erzaehlen.uni-freiburg.de

2014 – 2017
Medieval Narratology
Scientific network, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-Netzwerk)

I am co-editor of the journal New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, an open-access and peer-reviewed journal devoted to our work inside both the classroom and the institution, as well as to our outward-facing work contributing to the public discourse. In these ways, the journal seeks to advance a broad and embracing conception of medieval literary studies.

Also, I am a member of the following advisory boards:

Journal Beiträge für mediävistische Erzählforschung (BmE)
https://ojs.uni-oldenburg.de/ojs/index.php/bme

Project Retracing Connections: Byzantine Storyworlds
https://retracingconnections.org

Blog Diegesis in Mind
https://diegesis-in-mind.com

I am currently member of two scientific networks (funded by the German Research Foundation):
Diachronic Metalepsis
New Economic Criticism

Together with Amanda Gerber and Martha Rust, I run a blog devoted to lists:
https://listology.blog

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Since 10/2017	Junior Professor (Tenure-Track Professor) English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik (successful interim evaluation: 2020)
2022	Offer of the University of Bochum (Professorship of Medieval English Literature and Culture) declined; offer of the University of Freiburg accepted
2021	Offer of the University of Toronto (Professorship of Late Medieval English Literature) declined; offer of the University of Freiburg accepted
10/2015 – 09/2017	Assistant Professor English Department \| University of Freiburg Chair: Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
03/2012 – 09/2015	Assistant Professor Ruhr-University Bochum Chair: Prof. Dr. L. A. J. R. Houwen
04/2009 – 08/2012	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

EDUCATION

12/2012	Ph.D. (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
2004 – 2009	B.A. and M.A. English and Classics Ruhr-University Bochum

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND MEMBERSHIPS

2012	Fellowship at Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
Since 04/2020	Member of the “Junges Kolleg” of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (The Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz)
02/2018 –04/2018	Visiting Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Since 2016	Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (Academia Europeana)
Since 2016	Elected member of IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English)
2016	Postdoctoral Feodor Lynen-Stipend, 12 months-stay at the University of St Andrews (declined due to the funding received from the ERC in the same year)
2016	Winner of the Phelan Prize for the Best Essay in Narrative for “Why Medieval Literature Does Not Need the Concept of Social Minds”
2015 – 2016	Member of the Intercontinental Academia (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Studies); exchanges to Sao Paolo and Nagoya
2015–2016	Member of the “Junges Kolleg” of the Nordrheinwestfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (North Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts)
2014–2016	Stipend of the FAST TRACK programme (Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science), Robert Bosch Stiftung
2013–2014	External Junior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

UPCOMING AND RECENT CONFERENCES

09/2023	Co-Organizer (with Katharina Philipowski, Medieval German Studies/Potsdam), Conference Transtextuelle Figuren in antiken und mittelalterlichen Literaturen (funded by the Thyssen Stiftung)
07/2019	Co-Organizer, International conference Enumeration, Epistemology, Etcetera: Lists and List-Making in Literature and Culture, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
07/2019	Co-Organizer (with Eva Eßlinger, German Studies/Munich), Ein Ende setzen: Zum Zusammenhang von Schluss- und Konfliktmodellierungen Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz