Eva von Contzen#
| Membership Number: | 6829 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/abteilungen/literatur-kultur/lsvoncontzen?set_language=de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0871-4978 |
| Twitter: | @eva_von_c |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2023 Full Professor (W3, Ordinaria)
- 2017 - 2023 Tenure track Professor of English Literature including the Literatures of the Middle Ages, Department of English, University of Freiburg, Germany
- 2015 - 2017 Assistant Professor of English Literature, Department of English, University of Freiburg
- 2013 - 2015 Assistant Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture, Department of English, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
- 2012 - 2013 Assistant Professor (Substituting), Department of English, University of Freiburg
- 2009 - 2012 Lecturer, Department of English and Department of Classical Philology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Narratology
- Hagiography
- History of reception
- Re-telling
- Medieval English studies
Honours and Awards
- 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant, “Retelling and Repetition: Towards a Literary History of Derivation”
- Since 2020 Member of The Young Academy, Academy of Sciences and Literatures, Mainz
- Since 2019 Co-founder and co-editor of the open-access and peer-reviewed journal New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, supported by the New Chaucer Society (together with Candace Barrington, State University of Connecticut; Katherine Little, University of Colorado-Boulder; and Lisa Lampert-Weissig, University of California- San Diego) https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession
- 2017 - 2023 Principal Investigator, ERC Starting Grant, “Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology” (awarded in 2016, start of project in 2017)
- Since 2017 Member of the editorial board, book series Brill’s Narratological Commentaries to Ancient Texts
- Since 2017 Member of the editorial board, e-journal / open-access journal Beiträge zur mediävistischen Erzählforschung (http://ojs.uni-oldenburg.de/ojs- 3.1.0/index.php/bme/index
)
- Since 2016 Member of the Young Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea)
- 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 “Junges Kolleg” of the Nordrheinwestfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (North Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts)
- 2014 - 2017 Principal Investigator of the scientific network “Medieval Narratology”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-Netzwerk)
- 2013 - 2014 External Junior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
