SUSANNE KORD holds degrees (1 PhD, 2 M.A.s) from the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and taught at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.) for 11 years before coming to Britain. She is currently a professor at UCL.
As an academic, Susanne has written on many aspects of history, literary history, cinema, and reception. She has also published poetry in several anthologies and journals, and offered readings in various venues, including the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.. She has received seven major awards for her writing, including the 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities and the 2011 Forum for Modern Language Studies-prize for best article of the year. Susanne has served on a number of research councils and editorial boards of major publishers, academic journals and yearbooks, and has edited, co-edited or guest-edited The Lessing Yearbook, The German Quarterly, German Life and Letters and the Publications of the English Goethe Society. She has served as Head of the German Department at both Georgetown University and UCL.
Susanne has held three Visiting Fellowships, at All Souls College, University of Oxford (2014), St. John's College, University of Oxford (2009), and the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh, 2000). In October 2015, she was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society and in 2021 to a Fellowship of the British Academy. From 2015-18, she held a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, awarded for a major project on criminology and propaganda in Germany in the run-up to both World Wars. The result is her book Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (published by McFarland in October 2018).
At UCL, she teaches courses in German, Comparative Literature, Film, and Gender Studies.
As an academic, Susanne has written on many aspects of history, literary history, cinema, and reception. She has also published poetry in several anthologies and journals, and offered readings in various venues, including the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.. She has received seven major awards for her writing, including the 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities and the 2011 Forum for Modern Language Studies-prize for best article of the year. Susanne has served on a number of research councils and editorial boards of major publishers, academic journals and yearbooks, and has edited, co-edited or guest-edited The Lessing Yearbook, The German Quarterly, German Life and Letters and the Publications of the English Goethe Society. She has served as Head of the German Department at both Georgetown University and UCL.
Susanne has held three Visiting Fellowships, at All Souls College, University of Oxford (2014), St. John's College, University of Oxford (2009), and the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh, 2000). In October 2015, she was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society and in 2021 to a Fellowship of the British Academy. From 2015-18, she held a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, awarded for a major project on criminology and propaganda in Germany in the run-up to both World Wars. The result is her book Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (published by McFarland in October 2018).
At UCL, she teaches courses in German, Comparative Literature, Film, and Gender Studies.
