{"id":1493,"date":"2024-11-10T23:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:13:15","slug":"prof-dr-eva-von-contzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/prof-dr-eva-von-contzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Senior Fellow
FRIAS Project Group “GlassAge”<\/a>
October 2024 – December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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E-Mail: eva.voncontzen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Eva von Contzen is Professor of English literature at the University of Freiburg and the principal investigator of the ERC-funded project \u201cLists in Literature and Culture\u201d. She studied English Literature and Classics at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and wrote her PhD thesis on medieval saints\u2019 legends and their narrative art. In parallel to writing her dissertation, she was part of a project (funded by the German Research Foundation) that provided a translation, critical edition, and commentary on Marco Girolamo Vida\u2019s neo-Latin epic poem Christiad<\/em> at the Classics department at Ruhr-University Bochum. She has recently published The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration<\/em> (Manchester 2016) and pursues her interest in narrative and medieval literature in the interdisciplinary network \u201cMedieval Narratology\u201d. Her research interests include narrative theory, in particular its diachronic and historical dimension, epic catalogues, the reception of classical literature in contemporary literature and culture, and cognitive literary studies. Also, she is a member (Antragstellerin) of the research training group Factual and fictional narration <\/em>(GRK Faktuales and fiktionales Erz\u00e4hlen<\/em>) at the University of Freiburg. Currently, her main project is devoted to lists and enumerations in literary texts from antiquity to postmodernism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full list of publications and CV can be found on the English Seminar\u2019s webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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