
Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Till Greite
- Qualifications:
- MA (HU Berlin), Dr phil (HU Berlin, summa cum laude)
- Position:
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
- Institute:
- Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
- Location:
- Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
- Email address:
- till.greite@sas.ac.uk
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Contemporary History, Cultural memory, Language and Literature (German), Literatures in a modern language, Metropolitan history, Philosophy
- Regions:
- Europe, United Kingdom
- Languages:
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Spoken Written French Fluent Good German Fluent Fluent Other: Italian, Polish: basic skills
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- Research Projects & Supervisions
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Research projects:
Details The Legacy of Exile: 20th Century Literature in the ‘age of dispersion’ (Case Study: Michael Hamburger) The project seeks to revise substantively our understanding of German literature in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust by focusing on the under-appreciated issue of exile after 1945—what we might call ‘Post-Exile’. It is an archive-based case study about the Berlin-born poet, translator and critic Michael Hamburger, who came to Britain as a refugee in 1933 and crucially mediated the dissemination of German literature in the anglophone context. Hamburger referred to this era, with its unresolved issues, paradigmatically as the ‘age of dispersion’ that, in its traumatic results, unspoken pain and lost identities, still affects Europe today. The project will result in a monograph published first in German and subsequently, with the addition of a wider cultural contextualization, in English. In addition, the project will initiate seminars and conferences to familiarize a broader audience in the UK with the legacy of the German-Jewish exiles.
(British Academy funded, Postdoctoral Fellowship: £288,872,60)
Available for doctoral supervision: Yes
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- Available for consultancy:
- Yes
- Media experience:
- Yes