With the untimely death of our colleague Professor Andrea Reiter after a long illness courageously borne, the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the IMLR has lost a much valued and respected member. Andrea was a member of our committee for over ten years. She never stinted in travelling to London from Southampton, where she taught at the University, to attend events and meetings held by the Research Centre, and she contributed fully to its activities.

While much has been written about British attitudes to the Jewish refugees from Hitler who fled to this country after 1933, little attention has been paid to the ways in which those refugees perceived and depicted their (often somewhat reluctant) hosts. From their impressions on arrival, through the tumultuous events of World War II and mass internment, and on into the long period of integration after 1945, Anthony Grenville expertly traces the development of refugee responses to their new homeland.

Cole Collins has been awarded a Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Visiting Fellowship for 2018-19. Currently in the final stages of his PhD research at the University of Edinburgh, Cole Collins will be based at the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute from February until May 2019, during which time he will conduct research into the representations of women in a British context in the collages of Kurt Schwitters.

The German-language edition of Andrea Reiter's Contemporary Jewish Writing. Austria after Waldheim , published by Routledge in 2013, has been published by the New Academic Press in Vienna.