Victoria Craggs, B.A.

Research Assistant

Pronouns: she/her
Room: Werthmannstr. 6, Room 00 005
Office phone number: –
Email: abbigail.craggs@email.uni-freiburg.de

Victoria Craggs is a research assistant with the DERIVATE research project at the University of Freiburg. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with First Class Honours from the University of Durham, and is currently studying a Master’s in English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Freiburg.

Research interests:

  • Medieval Narratology
  • Cognitive Literary Studies
  • Hagiography
  • The Global Middle Ages
  • Classical Reception Studies
  • Medical Humanities

Employment:

Since 01/2025

Research Assistant
DERIVATE Project |  University of Freiburg
Chair of English Literature, Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen

2022

President, Durham University English Literature Society (DUELS), Durham University

Education:

2020-2023

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Literature
Durham University
First Dissertation Title: “no consciousness at all or an infinite one”: The Question of Imitation in Byron’s Dramas (1,0)
Supervisor: Dr Susan Valladares

Awards & Grants:

2024 – 2026

DAAD Stipendium – Masters Studies for All Academic Disciplines

2024-2026

Postgraduate Scholarship, St. Chad’s College

2020-2023

Dr Joe Cassidy Memorial Scholarship

2020

First Place in Prose Fiction, Lancaster Writing Awards, Lancaster University

2012

Full Academic Scholarship (English, Mathematics, Science), Polam Hall School

Conference Papers

  • “The time is come I will make end”: Eschatological and Local Memory in the York Cycle Plays (Bristol CMS PGR Conference ‘Memory and Legacy’, Bristol, 24.04.25)
  • “We are Amidst Strange Beings, in a Strange Land”: Spatial (Dis)orientations and Oral Narration in Dark Souls (International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 09.07.2025).

Event Organisation:

14.11.2022

‘Celebrating Trans Literature’, Co-Organiser, South College, Durham University

Teaching:

Summer term 2025

  • Tutorial, “Introduction to Literary Studies” with Dr Roman Barton
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