Victoria Craggs
Research Assistant
Pronouns: she/her
Room: Werthmannstr. 6, Room 00 005
Office phone number: –
Email: victoria.viriditas@gmail.com
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. She is also a graphic designer, working to incorporate medievalism into the creative digital space.
Research interests:
- Medieval Narratology
- Cognitive Literary Studies
- Adaptation Studies
- Hagiography
- The Global Middle Ages
- Classical Reception Studies
- Medical Humanities
- Digital Humanities and AI
- Braille
Employment:
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Since 01/2025 |
Research Assistant |
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2024 |
Records Service Operative, NHS England |
Education:
2020-2023 | Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Literature |
Awards & Grants:
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2025 |
The David Daiches Scholarship, SUISS, The University of Edinburgh |
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2025 |
Studienstiftung, Anglo-German Summer School Oxford, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford |
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2024 – 2026 |
DAAD Stipendium – Masters Studies for All Academic Disciplines |
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2024-2026 |
Postgraduate Scholarship, St. Chad’s College |
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2020-2023 |
Dr Joe Cassidy Memorial Scholarship, St. Chad’s College |
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2020 |
First Place in Prose Fiction, Lancaster Writing Awards, Lancaster University |
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2012 |
Full Academic Scholarship (English, Mathematics, Science), County Durham |
Conference Papers
- “Cultural fantasy does not evade but confronts history” (Geraldine Heng): Spatial (Re)frames and Literary Derivations in the Middle English and Middle Scots ‘Dido’ (Accepted: Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe, 21-22.03.2025)
- “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)
- Making the Case for Heurodis: Female Silence and Narrative Action in Sir Orfeo (Bangor University, 20th ‘Medievalism Transformed’ Conference, 24.05.25)
- “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)
- “Fra place to place […] Agane to Troy”: Hagiographical Mediation and the Intervention of Place in Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid (University of Edinburgh, Edwin Morgan Scholars Seminar 2025, 06.08.2025)
- Reinscribing Chaucer: A Digital Pedagogy of the Ellesmere Manuscript for Middle English Proficiency (New Chaucer Society 24th Biennial Congress, Freiburg, 27-30.07.2026)
Publications
- Making the Case for Heurodis: Female Silence and Narrative Kinesics in Sir Orfeo (Bangor University, ‘Medievalism Transformed’ Conference Proceeding) (in preparation)
- ‘Introduction’, in: New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession (2025) (with Incifem Sari Tekin) (in preparation)
Event Organisation:
14.11.2022 | ‘Celebrating Trans Literature’, Co-Organiser, South College, Durham University |
Roles:
2023: President, Durham University English Literature Society, Durham University
May – October 2025: Editorial Intern, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession
April 2025 – July 2026: Local Committee Member, New Chaucer Society: 24th Biennial Congress, Freiburg
Teaching:
Winter Term 2025/26
- Tutorial, “Survey of English Literature” with Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen