Oxford Kafka Research Centre

"The Oxford Kafka Research Centre aims to advance and co-ordinate research on Kafka, and more generally on German-language and especially German-Jewish literature and culture in the period of Modernism. Many Kafka scholars visit Oxford in order to study the large collection of Kafka manuscripts housed in the Bodleian Library. They were placed there in 1961 by the late Malcolm Pasley of Magdalen College, a pre-eminent Kafka scholar, with the agreement of Kafka's nieces, their legal owners. The manuscripts served as the basis for the Critical Edition of Kafka (published by S. Fischer Verlag), in which Malcolm Pasley played a leading role, and for the facsimile edition now being produced by the Stroemfeld/Roter Stern Verlag. Besides promoting the study of Kafka's manuscripts, the Research Centre aims to serve the whole spectrum of Kafka studies, ranging from biographical and historical research via literary and cultural studies to methodological and theoretical inquiries. It particularly aims to encourage interdisciplinary and intermedial approaches. For this purpose, the Research Centre plans a series of international conferences, focusing on Kafka, to be held every two years, besides a series of one-day workshops."