Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Till Greite
- Qualifications:
- Drphil
- 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
- Publication Details
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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.
- Professional Affiliations
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Professional affiliations:
Name Activity WAG Postdoc Network for Jewish Studies at the Leo Baeck Institute, Federal Republic of Germany (AG Literary Cultures) Member British Academy Early Career Researcher Network Member Selma Stern Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg Affiliated Member International Research Group ‘Displaced Heritage: German-Jewish Migration and Cultural Transfer in the 20th Century’ of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow Member Collaborations:
Name Type Activity Start date End date Roots in the Air: Multilingualism and Displacement. Workshop and Roundtable. In cooperation with Dr. Bianca Cataldi (UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin). Workshop 08-Apr-2024 04-Jun-2024 Dr. Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin) book project ‘Die andere Seite’ (2021). Editorial work 01-Sep-2019 01-May-2020 Research project ‘Vagantenweisheit. Goethes Schaffen im Licht der Revolution’ conducted by Associate Prof. Joel B. Lande (Princeton University). Research collaborator 01-Oct-2019 ‘The Futures of German Diasporas’ conducted by Prof. Klaus Richter (University of Birmingham, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD). Research collaborator 01-Apr-2022 31-May-2022 - Relevant Events
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