Professor Susanne Kord elected as Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Susanne Kord has authored books on crime and antisemitism, ethics in horror films, women and violent crime, and many other books and essays on film (especially genre and Hollywood movies),  women's literary history and reception, and 18th and 19th century literature and culture. In the interest of making some of women's unknown literature available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. She has 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 received numerous awards for her writing, among them two book awards, one award for Best Article (2011), 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, The German Quarterly, and the Publications of the English Goethe Society, and guest-edited German Life and Letters. In SELCS-CMII, professor Susanne Kord teaches courses in German language and literature, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies. She has supervised numerous doctoral and MA students.

Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a Fellowship of over 1400 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas. Current Fellows include the classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, the historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O’Neill, while previous Fellows include Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb. The Academy is also a funding body for research, nationally and internationally, and a forum for debate and engagement.

Welcoming the Fellows, the new President of the British Academy, Professor Julia Black FBA, said: "As the new President of the British Academy, it gives me great pleasure to welcome this new cohort of Fellows, who are as impressive as ever and remind us of the rich and diverse scholarship and research undertaken within the SHAPE disciplines – the social sciences, humanities and the arts. I am very much looking forward to working with them on our shared interests."

More information:

• The British academy elects 84 new fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humnities and social sciences
• Professor Susanne Kord FBA