About
Dr Jack Arscott is the post-doctoral research assistant on a three-year international collaboration between Swansea University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany. Co-chaired by Professor Julian Preece and funded jointly by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the project is entitled Elias Canetti and the British in a European Context: Exile, Reception, Appropriation and examines the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and thinker's place in the British cultural landscape after his flight from Nazi persecution to London shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In the first eighteen months of the project, which he spent in Munich, Dr Arscott worked with Professor Preece to translate an anthology of previously unpublished material from Canetti's voluminous archive; he is now co-ordinating both a travelling exhibition called Elias Canetti, A Jewish Emigre in Britain: People, Places, Impressions 1939-1988 and an upcoming international conference on Emigre Encounters: Elias Canetti in Britain/Begegnungen im Exil: Elias Canetti in Grossbritannien, as well as co-authoring a monograph with Professor Preece and Canetti biographer Professor Sven Hanuschek. He will also be taking over teaching on two German to English translation modules in the winter term. He is the author of the monograph Reclaiming the Nation: The Left-Wing Patriotism of Die Weltbuehne in the Weimar Republic (2025).