Susanne Kord, MA, MA, PhD

Professor of German and Head of Department

Susanne Kord holds degrees from the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and taught at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.) before she joined the UCL German Department in 2004. She has written books on women and violent crime in Germany's 18th and 19th centuries, 18th-century women peasant poets, 18th- and 19th-century women playwrights in Germany, women's anonymity and pseudonyms, and images of femininity in Hollywood, as well as articles on many aspects of women's literary history and reception. In the interest of making some of the unknown literature by pre-twentieth-century women available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. She has also published poetry in several anthologies and journals, and read her poetry in many venues, including at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has served or is serving on a number of research councils and boards, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), the Fonds für Wissenschaftliche Forschung (Belgium), the DAAD Research Council, the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University, and the editorial boards of numerous academic journals and yearbooks.

Her teaching comprises German language and literature courses at all levels (in both English and German) and post-graduate courses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and culture. As well as to the German Department, her teaching contributes to Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Gender Studies, and the B.A. in Language and Culture.

Susanne Kord has received numerous awards for her writing, among them two book awards, one Honourable Mention, an award for her poetry, and the Brentano-Preis awarded by the Freie Universität Berlin in 1997 for 'outstanding achievements in the advancement of women and knowledge of women's history.' She has served as Editor, among others, of The Lessing Yearbook and The German Quarterly, and guest-edited German Life and Letters. In 2008, she was elected an Honourary Secretary of the English Goethe Society, on whose behalf she is editing the Publications of the English Goethe Society with Matthew Bell and W. Daniel Wilson.

Susanne Kord's new book on murderesses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German writing appeared with Cambridge University Press in June 2009. Her next project will be a book on masculinity in recent Hollywood films, to be co-authored with Elisabeth Krimmer as the companion volume to their 2004 book Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines.

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