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Tom is a Director of Studies in English at Lucy Cavendish, where he also serves as tutor.

After training as a bookseller in Leipzig, he read English as well as German Literature and Linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at Cambridge University. At Cambridge, he also completed his MPhil and PhD studies in English while pursuing a parallel PhD in German Studies at the University of Leipzig. Tom has served as a convenor of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar at the Faculty of English and as a syndic of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Research Interests

Tom works mainly on English and German literature and the history of the book from the early modern period to the mid-twentieth century. He has particular interests in seventeenth-century poetry, the history of the novel, Anglo-German literary and cultural relations as well as the wider history of translation, the intersections of literary studies and linguistics, processes of influence and reception, canonization, stylistics (particularly questions of rhythm, syntax, and lexicon); the historicity of language in fiction, post-colonial engagements with the tradition of the realist novel, and the ways in which political beliefs inscribe themselves into literary works. He is currently working on his second book, a study of Jane Austen’s influence on the Modernists.

Selected Publications

Monograph

Edited Collection

  • · Christian Felix Weißes Werk im europäischen Kontext. Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Kulturtransfer und populäre Aufklärung, ed. by François Genton, Sebastian Schmideler, and Tom Zille (Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler, forthcoming 2024)

Articles and Book Chapters

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