Dr. Eva von Contzen
 | Dr. Eva von Contzen Akademische Rätin Englisches Seminar Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Rempartstr. 15 79085 Freiburg eva.voncontzen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
| 2015–present | Assistant Professor, English Department, Albert Ludwig 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, Albert Ludwig 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 German Research Foundation), Department of Classical Philology, Ruhr University Bochum, Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Glei |
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.
I am also an associated member of the research training group Factual and fictional narration (GRK Faktuales and fiktionales
Erzählen) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.
EDUCATION
| 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 |
| 10/2004–09/2009 | M.A. in English and Classics, Ruhr University Bochum |
PROJECTS
| 2016 | Principal Investigator, ERC Starting Grant, “Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology” (3 Ph.D. students, 1 postdoc, 5 years) |
| 2014–2017 | Principal Investigator, “Medieval Narratology” scientific network, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-Netzwerk). http://www.medieval-narratology.de/ |
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
| 2016 | Member of the Young Academy of Europe (Academia Europeana) |
| 2016 | Postdoctoral Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, 12-month stay at the University of St Andrews (rejected) |
| 2016 | Winner of the Phelan Prize for 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); 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 Fast Track programme scholarship (Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science), Robert Bosch Foundation |
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs and Edited Works
The Scottish Legendary. Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration. Manchester University Press, 2016.
Sanctity as Literature in Medieval Britain. Manchester University Press, 2015. (co-edited with Anke Bernau)
Marco Girolamo Vida, Christias. Bd. 1: Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung, Bd. 2: Kommentar. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag: Trier, 2013. (co-edited with Reinhold F. Glei, Wolfgang Polleichtner, and Michael Schulze Roberg)
Special issue in Style 50.3 (2016) on “Lists in Literature from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism” (guest editor)
Special issue in Narrative 23.2 (2015) on “Social Minds in Factual and Fictional Narration” (co-edited with Max Alders)
Special issue in Medievalia et Humanistica 41 (2015) on “Scottish Identity” (co-edited with Luuk Houwen)
Articles
“Die Lust am Lesen. Parodie in den Vorreden englischer Übersetzungen antiker Romane.” Parodie und Verkehrung. Formen und Funktionen spielerischer Verfremdung und spöttischer Verzerrung in Texten des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Eds. Seraina Plotke and Stefan Seeber. Göttingen: V&R, 2016. 111–31.
“The Limits of Narration: Lists and Literary History.” Style 50.3 (2016): 241–60.
“Why Medieval Literature Does Not Need the Concept of Social Minds: Exemplarity and Collective Experience.” Narrative 23.2 (2015, Special Issue “Social Minds in Factual and Fictional Narration”): 140–53.
“Narrating Vernacular Sanctity: The Scottish Legendary as a Challenge to the ‘Literary Turn’ in Fifteenth-Century Hagiography.” Sanctity as Literature in Medieval Britain. Eds. Eva von Contzen und Anke Bernau. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 172–90.
“Introduction: Sanctity as Literature.” Sanctity as Literature in Medieval Britain. Eds. Eva von Contzen und Anke Bernau. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. 1–17.
“Writing Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland.” Medievalia et Humanistica 41 (2015): 1–6. (with Luuk Houwen)
“Collective Experience in Narrative: Conclusion and Proposals.” in Narrative 23.2 (2015, Special Issue “Social Minds in Factual and Fictional Narration”): 226–29. (with Max Alders)
“Why We Need a Medieval Narratology: A Manifesto.” Diegesis: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 3.2 (2014): 1–21.
“Saints’ Lives as Narrative Art? Towards a Pragma-Narratological Approach to the Scottish Legendary.” Linguistics and Literary Studies: Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers. Eds. Monika Fludernik and Daniel Jacob. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014. 171–97.
“‘I still retain the Empire of my Minde’: Thomas Ross’s Continuation of Silius Italicus (1661; 1672).” Medievalia et Humanistica 39 (2014): 25–46.
“Heiligkeit als narratives Konstrukt: Die kommunikative Situation in ausgewählten Heiligenviten des englischen Mittelalters.” [‘Sanctity as a Narrative Construct: The Communicative Situation in Selected English Saints’ Legends’] Gottes Werk und Adams Beitrag. Eds. Thomas Honegger, Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, and Volker Leppin. Das Mittelalter. Beihefte. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014. 113–27.
“Marco Polo in the Scottish Legendary (XXXVI, ll. 755–810).” Notes & Queries 60.2 (2013): 196–99.
“Die Verortung eines Nicht-Ortes. Der fiktionale Raum in Thomas Morus’ Utopia.” [‘Locating a No-Place. Fictional Space in Thomas More’s Utopia.’] Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 13 (2011): 33–56.
Further Publications
Entry “Scottish Legendary” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 8 November 2016 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35762, accessed 8 November 2016.]
“Homo narrans.” The Future We Want/Burn After Reading. Eds. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Eileen A. Joy, and Myra Seaman. Oliphaunt Books and punctum books, 2014. 109–11.
Forthcoming
Handbuch Historische Narratologie. Stuttgart: Metzler. (co-edited with Stefan Tilg)
“Unnatural Narratology and Premodern Narratives: Historicizing a Form.” Journal of Literary Semantics.
“Listen im Transferprozess: Zur englischen und deutschen Rabelais-Übersetzung.” Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch.
Corpus Workshop with Prof. Mark Davies
[Update] Kursbelegung Wintersemester 2017: 3. Verteilverfahren abgeschlossen