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Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen

 

 

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
   S
cientific 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



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