Ian Ellison

Ian Ellison is a postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded "Kafka's Transformative Communities" project at the University of Oxford. His work investigates forms of cultural afterlife in European literature, with a particular focus on posterity in the work of European modernists and on the public commemoration of modernist writers. Ian was previously a DAAD PRIME fellow at the University of Kent and the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and he has held several stipendiary fellowships at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. His first book Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium was published in 2022. Ian is also a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the European Review of Books. He was longlisted for the 2024 Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism and in 2023 he was shortlisted for the Peirene-Stevns Translation Prize.