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Dr. Ian Ellison is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded "Kafka's Transformative Communities" project at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College. His academic work investigates forms of cultural afterlife in European literature, with particular focus on posterity in the work of European modernist writers, their archives, and public commemoration. He also serves as the Reviews Editor of Comparative Critical Studies and the Schools Networking Officer for the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland.
Ellison received his PhD in German and Comparative Literature from the University of Leeds in 2019, following an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Bristol and a BA in Modern European Languages with distinction in French, German, and Spanish from the University of Liverpool. Previously, he was a DAAD PRIME fellow at the University of Kent's Centre for Modern European Literature and Culture and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where he remains an international fellow of the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform. He has also been a stipendiary researcher at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach am Neckar.
His research interests center on European literary modernism, particularly Kafka studies, translation theory, literary afterlives, melancholy in literature, and the cultural reception of European writers. Ellison teaches undergraduate tutorials for German Prelim Papers III and IV, as well as FHS Papers VIII and X, and has given Faculty lectures on German literature between 1900 and 1945.
Ellison's scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on the intersections between European modernist literature, cultural memory, and translation. His work demonstrates particular expertise in Kafka studies, German-Jewish literary connections, and the reception of European literary works across national boundaries. His publications frequently examine how literary works transform through translation, adaptation, and cultural reception, with special attention to the afterlives of major European writers.
- Longlisted for the 2024 Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Peirene-Stevns Translation Prize
As a public intellectual, Ellison is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Review of Books, with additional writings appearing in the Oxford Review of Books, the Oxonian Review, the European Review of Books, and the Literary Review. His current book projects include Why Read Kafka? (Routledge, 2026) and co-edited volumes on Kafka and translation theory. Ellison has also been involved with the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform and conducted research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, reflecting his commitment to interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.
