JunProf. Dr. Eva von Contzen

JunProf. Dr. Eva von Contzen Akademische Rätin Englisches Seminar Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Rempartstr. 15 79085 Freiburg eva.voncontzen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

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 a member (Antragstellerin) of the research training group Factual and fictional narration (GRK Faktuales and fiktionales Erzählen) at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.

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

EDUCATION

PROJECTS

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs and Edited Works

Narratologie und mittelalterliches Erzählen. Autor, Erzähler, Perspektive, Zeit und Raum. Berlin: de Gryuter, 2018. (co-edited with Florian Kragl)

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

“Experience, Affect, and Literary Lists.” Partial Answers 16.2 (2018): 315-27.

“Wer bin ‘Ich’ und wenn ja, wie viele? Narrative Inszenierungen des Ichs in England und Schottland.” Von sich selbst erzählen: Historische Dimensionen des Ich-Erzählens. Eds. Sonja Glauch and Katharina Philipowski. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. 63-97.

“Narrative and Experience in Medieval Literature: Author, Narrator, and Character Revisited.” Narratologie und mittelalterliches Erzählen. Autor, Erzähler, Perspektive, Zeit und Raum. Eds. Eva von Contzen and Florian Kragl. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018. 61-80.

“Diachrone Narratologie und historische Erzählforschung. Eine Bestandsaufnahme und ein Plädoyer.” [‘Diachronic Narratologe and Historical Narrative Theory. Status quo and a Plea’] Beiträge zur mediävistischen Erzählforschung 1 (2018): 18-38.

“‘Both Close and Distant’: Experiments of Form and the Medieval in Contemporary Literature.” Frontiers of Narrative 3.2 (2017): 289-303.

“Dido’s Words. Representing Speech and Consciousness in Ancient and Medieval Narrative.” How To Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives. Eds. Jan Alber and Greta Olson. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. 79-92.

“Die Affordanzen der Liste.” [‘The Affordances of the List’] Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 3 (2017): 317-26.

“Listen im Transferprozess: Zur englischen und deutschen Rabelais-Übersetzung.” [‘Lists in Transition: On the English and German Translation of Rabelais’] Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 58 (2017): 193-220.

“Emotion und Handlungsmotivation in Sir Tristrem.” [‘Emotion and Plot Motivation in Sir Tristrem.’] Emotion und Handlung im Artusroman. Eds. Cora Dietl, Christoph Schanze, Friedrich Wolfzetter, Lena Zudrell. Berlin 2017. 229-42.

“Grenzfälle des Erzählens: Die Liste als einfache Form.” [‘On the Margins of Narrative: The List as Simple Form.’] Komplexität und Einfachheit. Villa-Vigoni Symposion 2015. Ed. Albrecht Koschorke. Stuttgart 2017. 221-39.

“Unnatural Narratology and Premodern Narratives: Historicizing a Form.” Journal of Literary Semantics 146 (2017): 1-23.

“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.