George Oppitz-Trotman is a Research Associate in the Faculty of English and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of East Anglia, his graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge, and the venia legendi from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. He has held fellowships from the British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt
Stiftung.