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
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Dr Till Greite has been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, since 2024, and is a member of the academic staff at its Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS). At ILCS, he is pursuing a research project on German-Jewish exile in Britain entitled The Legacy of Exile: Twentieth-Century Literature in the ‘Age of Dispersion’ (see below for further details).
He completed his PhD on literary post-war Berlin at Humboldt University Berlin, where he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Literature (Chair of Prof. Joseph Vogl) until 2023. During this period, he was also a member of the transnational doctoral research network Das Wissen der Literatur. His academic career has encompassed visiting fellowships at Princeton University, University College Dublin, DLA Marbach, and the Moses Mendelssohn Centre in Potsdam. He has also collaborated on Prof. Joel B. Landes’ (Princeton) Goethe project Vagantenweistheit.
Among his publications are Die leere Zentrale. Berlin, ein Bild aus dem deutschen Nachkrieg (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2024) and the edited volume Die lange Stunde Null. Beiträge zu Literatur und Film einer Übergangszeit um 1945 (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2026), co-edited with Prof. Erhard Schütz (HU Berlin). In addition, he has published numerous articles emerging from his ongoing research project The Legacy of Exile, most recently ‘Hilde Domin, Michael Hamburger: Von diesem neuen Volk der Displaced Persons. Briefwechsel (1963–68)’ in Sinn und Form 2/2026.
His further research interests span nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary history, metropolitan cultures, exile studies, comparative literary studies, history of ideas, phenomenology, and hermeneutics.
Till is currently on research leave at the Erich Auerbach Institute of Advanced Studies in Cologne, where he is developing the project Liberalism in Exile in collaboration with Jun.-Prof. Till Breyer (Cologne).
- Languages:
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Spoken Written French Fluent Good German Fluent Fluent Other: Italian, Polish: basic skills
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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: £292,693,60)
Available for doctoral supervision: Yes
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- Available for consultancy:
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