Dr Monja Stahlberger is an early career researcher specialising in German and Austrian exile studies and German-Jewish history. Her work focuses on questions of cultural identity, belonging, and transnational memory. She is particularly interested in how personal narratives and ego-documents illuminate processes of identity formation and cultural belonging across generations.
She completed her PhD in Exile Studies at the University of London's Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies (2020-2024) with a thesis examining diaries of Kindertransport refugees and their changing notions of belonging. Prior to her doctoral studies, she received her MA in Literature and Culture from the University of Birmingham and her BA in Media Culture Studies from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg.
Her current project at the Leo Baeck Institute London investigates how German-Jewish cultural memory and identity evolve across borders and generations through various forms of life writing. Before joining LBI London, she held a Bithell Fellowship at the Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies and was selected to give the 2024 Sylvia Naish Lecture on language use in Kindertransport diaries.
