Monja Stahlberger

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Monja Stahlberger is a Bithell Visiting Fellow and an early career researcher, who recently completed her PhD at the ILCS Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies. In her doctoral thesis, she investigated the changing notions of belonging in diaries of Kindertransport refugees. She was the recipient of the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Trust Studentship, and won the competition to give the 2024 Sylvia Naish Lecture on ‘Across Language Borders: Writing Integration and Belonging in Kindertransport Diaries’. Before her doctoral studies, she completed a BA in Media Studies and English at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg, Germany, and an MA in Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. During her tenure of the Bithell Fellowship, she is preparing a book proposal for a monograph as well as working on stand-alone articles building on her PhD research on the Kindertransport, writing about exile and everyday experiences and the negotiation of belonging.