Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Gender studies, Language and Literature (German), Literatures in a modern language

Regions:

Europe

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Professor Godela Weiss-Sussex's main research interests lie in the culture and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the following areas: women’s writing, the works of German-Jewish writers produced in Germany and in exile; multi- and translingualism; concepts of 'Heimat' and belonging. Her main current research projects focus on: German-Jewish women’s writing in the 20th and 21st centuries; translingual writing; postmigrant imaginaries of belonging.

Languages:

	Spoken	Written
French	Intermediate	Intermediate
German	Fluent	Fluent

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Mar-2024	'Allerbester GH'. Georg Hermanns postum veroeffentlichter Exilroman Die daheim blieben Chapters Book chapter in 'Vom gesicherten und ungesicherten leben'. Neue Perspektiven auf das Werk von Georg Hermann, hg. von Christian Klein (Wallstein, 2024)
20-Sep-2023	Georg Hermann, Die daheim blieben Edited Book First edition of previously unpublished exile novel by Georg Hermann
20-Sep-2023	Nachwort to Georg Hermann, Die daheim blieben Edited Book pp. 401-42
14-Aug-2023	Contested Communities. Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe Edited Book edited volume by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex
14-Aug-2023	German-Jewish Women's Writing in Early Twentieth-Century Berlin: Claiming Space for a (Multiple) Minority Chapters Chapter in: Contested Communities. Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe. Edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 25-37
01-Mar-2023	Barbara Honigmann Edited Book Book; co-edited with Robert Gillett, published in series 'Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers', Peter Lang, Oxford
01-Mar-2023	Between Distance and Belonging: Space, Time and Multilingualism in 'Das ueberirdische Licht' Chapters Book chapter, published in Robert Gillett and G. Weiss-Sussex (eds.), Barbara Honigmann
01-Nov-2022	Transnational Neighbourhoods in Barbara Honigmann's 'Das ueberirdische Licht' (2008) and 'Chronik meiner Strasse' (2016) Chapters Book chapter in Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood. Perspectives on Community-building, Identity and Belonging, ed. by Stephan Ehrig, Britta C. Jung and Gad Schaffer (Leuven University Press, 2022)
11-Apr-2022	‘Georg Hermann. A Writer’s Life, by John Craig-Sharples, Legenda, 2019, 302pp., £75, ISBN 9781781888551’ Review Book review in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
01-Dec-2020	Zur Vermittlung von Gegenwartsliteratur – mit Theodor Fontanes Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg als Ausgangspunkt’ Chapters Chapter (co-written with Gisela Holfter) in 'Was zu beginnen nicht aufhört - Facetten der Gegenwartsliteratur in der internationalen Germanistik und im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache', eds Almut Hille and Oliver Völkel (Munich: iudicium, 2020), pp. 150-164
04-Jun-2020	Rethinking Minor Literatures – Contemporary Jewish Womens’ Writing in Germany and Austria Edited Book Special Issue of Modern Languages Open, co-edited with Maria Roca Lizarazu
04-Jun-2020	‘… dass diese tauben Geschichten aufflattern’: Narrative, Translingual Creativity and Belonging in Katja Petrowskaja, Vielleicht Esther (2014)’ Journal articles Article in Rethinking Minor Literatures – Contemporary Jewish Womens’ Writing in Germany and Austria, ed. by Maria Roca Lizarazu and G. Weiss-Sussex (= Modern Languages Open, 2020(1): 11), pp. 1–18
01-Jul-2019	The Department Store as Habitat of the Sophisticated Urbanite: Georg Hermann's 'Der kleine Gast' (1925) Chapters Chapter in 'Urban Microcosms, 1789-1940', ed. by Margit Dirscherl and Astrid Koehler (London: imlr books, 2019), pp. 101-13
26-Jun-2019	Wandern und Plaudern mit Fontane. Literarische Begegnungen mit der Mark-Brandenburg heute Edited Book Book; co-edited with Gisela Holfter. Publisher: Quintus, Berlin.
26-Jun-2019	Wandern und Plaudern mit Fontane: Vorwort Chapters Introductory preface to edited volume
16-Jan-2019	Elisabeth Landau's Der Holzweg (1918): A German-Jewish Gendered Discussion of Heimat Articles Article in German Life and Letters, 72. 1, January 2019, Pages 89-100.
16-Jan-2019	Women Writing Heimat in Imperial and Weimar Germany: Introduction Articles Introduction to special issue of German Life and Letters, 72.1. (January 2019), co-written with Caroline Bland and Catherine Smale, pages 1-13.
16-Jan-2019	Women Writing Heimat in Imperial and Weimar Germany Journal articles Special Issue of German Life and Letters (72.1, January 2019), co-edited with Caroline Bland and Catherine Smale
01-Aug-2018	Modernity and the 'Jewess': Introduction Journal articles  Introduction to a Section of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2018
01-Jul-2017	The Monist Novel as Site of Female Agency: Grete Meisel-Hess’s Die Intellektuellen (1911) Chapters Chapter in: Biological Discourses. The Language of Science and Literature around 1900, eds. Robert Craig and Ina Linge (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 111-133
01-Dec-2016	English and German Cultural Encounters: A.S. Byatt in Conversation with Martin Swales and Godela Weiss-Sussex Edited Book Publication of the 2015 Bithell Memorial Lecture
15-Apr-2016	Jüdin und Moderne. Literarisierungen der Lebenswelt deutsch-jüdischer Autorinnen in Berlin, 1900-1918 [Jewish Women and Modernity. Literary reflections on Jewishness, femininity and urban life by female German-Jewish authors in Berlin, 1900-1918] Monographs Monograph. Publisher: De Gruyter (Berlin); 275pp
01-Nov-2015	Tales of Commerce and Imagination. Department Stores and Modernity in Film and Literature Edited Book Book; co-edited with Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang)
01-Nov-2015	'Einfuehrung' Chapters Introductory chapter for edited volume 'Tales of Commerce and Imagination', pp. 9-19, co-written with Ulrike Zitzlsperger
01-Nov-2015	'Confronting Stereotypes: Department Store Novels byGerman-Jewish Authors, 1916-1925' Chapters Chapter in volume 'Tales of Commerce and Imagination', pp. 89-106
01-Apr-2015	‘Von der “Gefallenen” zur “Hüterin der Zukunft”. Außereheliche Mutterschaft in literarischen Texten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts’ Chapters Chapter in: Zwischen Demontage und Sakralisierung. Revisionen des Familienmodells in der europäischen Moderne (1880-1945), eds Christine Kanz and Frank Krause (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015), pp 151-168
01-Jan-2015	Protest and Reform in German Literature and Visual Culture, 1871-1918 Edited Book Book; Co-edited with Charlotte Woodford (Munich: Iudicium)
01-Jan-2015	‘Reformprogrammatik und Romanästhetik: Ruth Bré, Gabriele Reuter und Grete Meisel-Hess’ Chapters Chapter in 'Protest and Reform in German Literature and Visual Culture, 1871-1918', eds Godela Weiss-Sussex and Charlotte Woodford, pp 168-188
01-Jan-2015	‘Introduction’ Chapters Chapter (with Charlotte Woodford), in 'Protest and Reform in German Literature and Visual Culture, 1871-1918', eds Godela Weiss-Sussex and Charlotte Woodford (see above), pp 7-12
01-Aug-2014	‘Radical Feminist and Belligerent Journalist: Grete Meisel-Hess’ Chapters Chapter in Discovering Women's History. German-Speaking Journalists (1900-1950), ed. Christa Spreizer
01-Dec-2013	Das Berliner Warenhaus. Geschichte und Diskurse / The Berlin Department Store. History and Discourse Edited Book Book; co-edited with Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang)
01-Dec-2013	Einfuehrung / Introduction Chapters Das Berliner Warenhaus. Geschichte und Diskurse / The Berlin Department Store. History and Discourse (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang), pp. 7-15.
01-Jan-2012	Beyond Glitter and Doom. Contingency in the Weimar Republic Edited Book Book; co-edited with Jochen Hung and Geoff Wilkes (Munchen: Iudicium)
01-Apr-2011	Matt Frei, Berlin – a Clash of Histories Edited Book Publication of the 2010 Bithell Memorial Lecture
01-Jan-2011	Introduction Chapters Chapter co-written with Katia Pizzi, in The Cultural Identities of European Cities (Oxford: Lang), pp. 1-5.
01-Jan-2011	‘Berlin: Myth and Memorialization’ Chapters Chapter in 'The Cultural Identities of European Cities', eds Katia Pizzi and Godela Weiss-Sussex, pp 145-164
01-Jan-2011	The Cultural Identities of European Cities Edited Book Book; co-edited with Katia Pizzi (Bern: Lang)
01-Jan-2011	Giving People Ideas – Text and Concept. Literary Texts as Thought Experiments Edited Book Book; co-edited with Susanne Kord and Ernest Schonfield (= Publications of the English Goethe Society 80, numbers 2-3) (London: Maney)
01-Feb-2010	Gina Kaus: Schriftstellerin und Öffentlichkeit. Zur Stellung einer Schriftstellerin in der literarischen Öffentlichkeit der Zwischenkriegszeit in Österreich und Deutschland Review Review in Austrian Studies, Vol 17, No 1, pp 210-212
01-Jan-2010	‘Das Gewebe des Lebens. Anna Maria Jokls Die Reise nach London (1999)’ Article in 'Angermion. Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers', Vol 3, pp 19-31
01-May-2009	Peter Stein, Schillers ‘Wallenstein’-Trilogie auf der Bühne Edited Book Publication of the 2008 Bithell Memorial Lecture
01-Jan-2009	‘The Mental Life of a Metropolitan Dweller. Georg Hermann’s Novel Die Nacht des Doktor Herzfeld (1912)’ Chapters Chapter in 'Topography and Literature: Berlin and Modernism', ed Reinhard Zachau (Göttingen: V & R unipress), pp 101-110
01-Jan-2009	‘Else Croner und die “moderne Jüdin”' Chapters Chapter in '‘Not an Essence but a Positioning’: German-Jewish Women Writers, 1900-1938', eds Andrea Hammel and Godela Weiss-Sussex, pp 55-76
01-Jan-2009	‘Fragmentation of Identity as Opportunity for Individuation? Explorations of the German and British City Novel of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries’ Chapters Chapter in 'The Racehorse of Genius. Literary and Cultural Comparison', eds Martin Liebscher, Ben Schofield and Godela Weiss-Sussex, pp 102-119
01-Jan-2009	‘Not an Essence but a Positioning’: German-Jewish Women Writers, 1900-1938 Edited Book Book; co-edited with Andrea Hammel (München: Meidenbauer)
01-Jan-2009	The Racehorse of Genius. Literary and Cultural Comparison Edited Book Book; co-edited with Martin Liebscher and Ben Schofield (München: Iudicium) (= London German Studies XII)
2009	On the Relationship between Hesse’s Painting and Writing: Wanderung, Klingsors letzter Sommer, Gedichte des Malers and Piktors Verwandlungen chapter in: I. Cornils (ed), A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse. Rochester, NY: Camden House
2009	Georg Hermann Article in Killy Literaturlexikon: W. Killy et als (ed), Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 2009.
01-Jan-2008	Verwisch die Spuren!’. Bertolt Brecht’s Work and Legacy. A Reassessment Edited Book Book; co-edited with Robert Gillett (Amsterdam: Rodopi) (= Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 66).
01-Jan-2008	‘“A Ridiculous Thing to Do”: Yvonne Kapp and Brecht in Translation’ Chapters Chapter in '‘Verwisch die Spuren!’. Bertolt Brecht’s Work and Legacy. A Reassessment', eds Robert Gillett and Godela Weiss-Sussex, pp 309-320
01-Jan-2007	‘“Ich gehe und gehe [...] und gehe und sehe.” Female Experience of the City’ Chapters Chapter in 'Berlin: Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und seit den Neunziger Jahren', eds Godela Weiss-Sussex and Ulrike Zitzlsperger, pp 46-61
01-Jan-2007	Berlin. Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und seit den Neunziger Jahren Edited Book Book; co-edited with Ulrike Zitzlsperger (München: Iudicium)
01-Jan-2006	Urban Mindscapes of Europe Edited Book Book; co-edited with Franco Bianchini (Amsterdam: Rodopi) (= European Studies 23)
01-Jan-2006	‘Berlin Literature and its Use in the Marketing of the “New Berlin”’ Chapters Chapter in 'Urban Mindscapes of Europe', eds Godela Weiss-Sussex with Franco Bianchini, pp 237-258
01-Jan-2004	‘Impressionismus als Weltanschauung. Die Kunstkritik Georg Hermanns’ Chapters Chapter in 'Georg Hermann. Deutsch-jüdischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, 1871-1943', ed Godela Weiss-Sussex, pp 87-101
01-Jan-2004	Georg Hermann: Deutsch-jüdischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, 1871-1943 Edited Book Edited volume (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer) (= Conditio Judaica 48)
01-Jan-2003	‘Fontane und die englische Malerei: Die Briefe aus Manchester’ Articles Article, Fontane Blätter 75 (2003), pp 64-80
01-Jan-2001	‘Der Blick auf Berlin in Romanen exilierter Schriftsteller 1933 bis 1938’ Chapters Chapter in 'Berlin - Wien - Prag. Moderne, Minderheiten und Migration in der Zwischenkriegszeit', eds Susanne Marten-Finnis and Matthias Uecker (Bern: Lang), pp 185-206
01-Jan-2001	‘Fontane’s and Georg Hermann’s Berlin. Relationships to Contemporary Painting’ Chapters Chapter in 'Theodor Fontane and the European Context: Literature, Culture and Society in Prussia and Europe', eds Helen Chambers and Patricia Howe (Amsterdam: Rodopi), pp 231-252
01-Jan-2001	Metropolitan Chronicles. Georg Hermann’s Berlin Novels, 1897 to 1912 Monographs Monograph (Stuttgart: Heinz) (= Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik 379)

Publications available on SAS-space:

Date	Details
Dec-2006	Urban Mindscapes of Europe NonPeerReviewed Urban mindscapes are structures of thinking about a city, built on conceptualisations of the city’s physical landscape as well as on its image as transported through cultural representation, memory and imagination. This book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these ‘landscapes of the mind’ in a European context. The first strand concerns the theory and methodology of researching urban mindscapes and urban ‘imaginaries’. The second strand investigates some of the representations, symbols and collective images that feed into our understanding of European cities. It discusses representations of the city in literature, film, television and other cultural forms, which, in James Donald’s phrase, constitute ‘archives of urban images’. The third and last section of the volume concentrates on the relationship between the collective mindscapes of cities, urban policy and the practice of city marketing.
	Georg Hermann.Deutsch-jüdischer Schriftsteller und Journalist,1871-1943 PeerReviewed Im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts war Georg Hermann ein international bekannter und beliebter Autor. Sein leicht ironischer Ton und die leise Melancholie seiner atmosphärischen Schilderungen sind unverwechselbar geblieben. Die Aufsätze des vorliegenden Bandes nehmen sich Hermanns als Romanautor, als Chronist Berlins, als Kunst- und Literaturkritiker und als Zeuge deutsch-jüdischen Erlebens an. Der Band enthält die Erstpublikation von Hermanns 1937 im holländischen Exil geschriebenen Novelle Bist du es oder bist du’s nicht?. The attached PDF contains a list of contents.
Dec-2006	Metropolitan Chronicles. Georg Hermann’s Berlin Novels 1897 to 1912 NonPeerReviewed An abstract for Metropolitan Chronicles. Georg Hermann’s Berlin Novels 1897 to 1912 (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2001) ( = Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, Vol. 379)
Dec-2006	Berlin. Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und Neunziger Jahren NonPeerReviewed An abstract for: (ed., with Ulrike Zitzlsperger): Berlin. Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und Neunziger Jahren (München: Iudicium, 2007).
Dec-2006	Bertolt Brecht – A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy NonPeerReviewed An abstract for (ed., with Robert Gillett): Bertolt Brecht – A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007).
Dec-2006	Berlin Literature and its Use in the Marketing of the “New Berlin”’, in Urban Mindscapes of Europe NonPeerReviewed An abstract for an article ‘Berlin Literature and its Use in the Marketing of the “New Berlin”’, in Urban Mindscapes of Europe, edited by Godela Weiss-Sussex with Franco Bianchini.
	Impressionismus als Weltanschauung. Die Kunstkritik Georg Hermanns NonPeerReviewed Hermann’s main work as an art critic, which significantly influenced the content and style of his fiction, falls in the period from 1899 to 1908, the height of the Berlin Secession movement. Like the Secession artists, Hermann regards a personal style and individual expression as the main criteria for the evaluation of art. Like other critics close to the Secession movement, he considers the preintellectual, sensual reception of a work of art as central. – Reflecting 19th century aesthetics, he still considers art to a certain extent as the expression of a nation’s spirit. However, the difficulties he encounters with the reception of foreign, notably romanesque, art are experienced as an educational (and selfeducational) challenge and, unlike many of his contemporaries, do not lead him to reject foreign art. – One of Hermann’s main concerns is to fight the separation between art and life. Art, as he sees it, is supposed to distil the image of our environment to its essential core and to educate our perception of this environment. In this way, art can help the observer to gain a new world view, in the literal as well as the metaphorical sense. – Hermann is not a revolutionary champion of the avant-garde, but he does represent the progressive element of the ›Zeitgeist‹, and gives voice to the attitudes of the liberal, cosmopolitan middle class.
Dec-2006	‘“A Ridiculous Thing to Do”: Yvonne Kapp and Brecht in Translation’, in Bertolt Brecht – A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy NonPeerReviewed An abstract for an article ‘“A Ridiculous Thing to Do”: Yvonne Kapp and Brecht in Translation’, in Bertolt Brecht – A Reassessment of his Work and Legacy, edited by Godela Weiss-Sussex and Robert Gillett.
Dec-2006	‘Berlin – A City “Condemned to Forever Become and Never to Be”?, in The Cultural Identity of European Cities NonPeerReviewed An abstract for an article: ‘Berlin – A City “Condemned to Forever Become and Never to Be”?, in The Cultural Identity of European Cities, edited by Katia Pizzi and Godela Weiss-Sussex.
	Else Croner und die "moderne Jüdin" PeerReviewed Im Gegensatz zu früheren Forschungsansätzen, die Croners Abhandlung 'Die moderne Jüdin' von 1913 als Beitrag zu dem unter jüdischen Frauen geführten Diskurs über Identitätsmodelle der deutschen Jüdin betrachtet haben, schlägt der vorliegende Aufsatz eine Lesart des Buches vor, die sich auf seine Kontextualisierung im Rahmen von Else Croners Gesamtwerk stützt, in dem es – außer in dieser einen Schrift – nie um Fragen deutsch-jüdischer Identität geht. Die Kontinuität zwischen den anderen Werken Croners und dem Buch über die moderne Jüdin wird nachgewiesen, und Croner stellt sich als hoch-akkulturierte christliche Autorin jüdischer Herkunft dar, für die nicht die Diskussion spezifisch jüdischer Weiblichkeit, sondern der Einsatz für die Rückkehr zu einem traditionellen Weiblichkeitsbild an sich zentral war.
	On the Relationship between Hesse’s Painting and Writing: 'Wanderung',' Klingsors letzter Sommer', 'Gedichte des Malers' and 'Piktors Verwandlungen' PeerReviewed
	Tales of the Unexpected: German-Jewish Women Writers in Early 20th-Century Berlin NonPeerReviewed
Aug-2018	Modernity and the 'Jewess': Introduction to a section of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2018 PeerReviewed The articles collected in this section result from a symposium held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, on 20 October 2016. The theme, ‘Modernity and the “Jewess”’, reflects an interest in the perception and literary self-representation of Jewish women in early twentieth-century Germany and in exile, with a focus on their engagement with the rapid changes and the growing tensions, particularly in the political and social realms, that we subsume under the concept of modernity. In this introduction, I provide some context for this emphasis of enquiry by sketching the research field concerned with German-Jewish women’s writing in the early twentieth...

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
Concepts of Belonging in Postmigrant Literature Joint research project with Lizzie Stewart (KCL)
Jewish women authors' writing in German as 'minor' literature joint research project with Maria Roca Lizarazu (Birmingham)
Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe Joint research project with Margaret Littler (Manchester)
The German-Jewish Family Novel
Women Writing 'Heimat' in Imperial and Weimar Germany Joint research project with Caroline Bland (Sheffield) and Catherine Smale (KCL) , completed in 2019

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 01-Oct-2021 Until:	German-Jewish Postmigrant Literary Discourses on Memory and Futurity Candidate: Vivian Jochens

Past PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 2020 Until: 2024	Childhood in Exile: Identity, Displacement and Diaspora Student: Monja Stahlberger
From: 2019 Until: 2023	The Concept of Enlightened Patriotism in Weimar Germany Student: Jack Arscott
From: 01-Oct-2012 Until: 01-Oct-2015	Contested memory: Lower Silesia in historiography, geography and literature student: Steven Jefferson
From: Until: 2018	From Satire to Silence: Hans Sachs's Commentary on Civic Decline Student: Sharon Baker
From: Until: 2020	An Analysis of Genre in Narratives of the Kindertransport Student: Stephanie Homer
From: Until:	Writing Home. German Women as Exiles in Britain: Transnational Identities Angharad Mountford, completed February 2021
From: Until:	'Deutsche Jugend wohin?' Eine Untersuchung des Generationsdiskurses nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg am Beispiel von Zeitschriften der 'jungen Generation' student: Steffen Stadthaus
From: Until:	Discourses of democracy, consumption, youth and women in the Weimar Republic newspaper Tempo (1928-1933)), student: Jochen Hung

Available for doctoral supervision: Yes

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
The Higher Education Academy (HEA)	member
Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG)	member
Association for German Studies (AGS)	member
Women in German Studies (WIGS)	member
Selma Stern Zentrum fuer juedische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg	associate / cooperation partner
Advisory Board of gfl (German as a Foreign Language) (journal)	member
Editorial Board of imlr books	member and editor of German-language books
Editorial Board of Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies	member
Editorial Board of Bithell Series of Dissertations	chair
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW)	co-director
King's College, Cambridge	Fellow
Advisory Group for the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies	member
German Studies Association (GSA), USA	member
Editorial Board of Amsterdamer Beitraege zur neueren Germanistik (Rodopi/Brill)	member

Collaborations:

Name	Type	Activity	Start date	End date
AHRC-funded network on Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature	AHRC research network	member of steering committee		2013
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW)		co-director
Network ‘Biological Discourses and German Literature around 1900’		co-organiser		2017
Network ‘Department Stores as Paradigm of Modernity’		co-organiser
Network 'European Shakespeare'		co-organiser		2016
Network 'German in the World'		co-organiser		2015
AHRC-funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership		subject area representative
AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative: Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community		Leading sub-project 'Minority Literatures and Translingual Writing'
Transnational Urban Neighbourhoods		co-organiser, research collaboration

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
08-Nov-2024	From Minority Literatures to Postmigrant Writing Paper delivered at 'Spineless Wonders' symposium, Slade School of Fine Art/SAS, 8 November 2024
03-Sep-2024	Narrating German-Jewish Experience of the 1930s through the Family Novel: Lion Feuchtwanger and Georg Hermann Paper delivered at the Association for German Studies conference (AGS) , University of Leeds, 2-4 September
02-Jul-2024	Brittany, Scotland, Berlin. Multilingualism in Literature and Theatre Co-organisation and chairing of panel discussion involving Zafer senocak (Berlin), Thomas Cloarec (Brest) and Peter Mackay (St Andrews). Co-organiser: Margaret Littler
18-Jun-2024	Encounter: Fatma Aydemir and Jon-Cho Polizzi An author - translator conversation, co-organised with Lea Heim
06-Jul-2023	Encounter: Esther Dischereit with Iain Galbraith and DJ Ipek Encounter / Performance organised in collaboration with the Goethe Institute London
05-Jul-2023	Postmigrant Reconfigurations: New Approaches to Contemporary German-language Jewish Cultural Production Conference organised (with Maria Roca Lizarazu and Elizabeth Stewart) at ILCS
03-May-2023	Catherine the Great - A Celebrity Across Time Panel discussion
28-Apr-2023	2023 Sylvia Naish Postgraduate Lecture Speaker: Sophia Buck
29-Sep-2022	Weather in Translation, Time, Place and Sound Panel discussion with the creative team behind the sound installation 'A Thousand Words for Weather'
16-Mar-2022	Writing Freely Panel Discussion organised and introduced as part of the SAS series 'Open for Discussion: Free Speech', 2022
23-Feb-2022	Zusammen weiter schreiben Panel discussion and reading with Anika Reich, Widad Nabi and Annett Groeschner; organised and chaired in the context of the 2022 DAAD/IMLR German Language Competition
02-Jul-2021	Encounter: Mascha Dabic and Leigh Bailey An author-translator conversation
14-Jun-2021	Encounter: Annett Groeschner and Katy Derbyshire An author - translator conversation
27-May-2021	2021 Bithell Memorial Lecture Speaker: Raphael Gross
24-May-2021	2021 Sylvia Naish Postgraduate Lecture Speaker: Laura Lux
11-May-2021	Encounter: Doerte Hansen and Anne Stokes An author - translator conversation
22-Apr-2021	Transnational Approaches to Building a Post-Covid Society Panel Discussion co-organised and co-chaired as part of the SAS series 'Open for Discussion', 22 April 2021
24-Mar-2021	Das Wort der Zukunft An online public prize-giving event to celebrate the 2020/2021 IMLR/DAAD German language competition
19-Mar-2021	Pedagogies in Modern Languages, Area Studies and Linguistics Inaugural AMLUK symposium
24-Nov-2020	Theorizing Crisis Imaginaries A Joint Research Workshop, organised by the UCD Humanities Institute and the IMLR. Using the idea of a ‘crisis imaginaries’ as a springboard, the workshop investigated the social, political and historical functions of crisis narrations from interdisciplinary perspectives. Speakers: Janet Roitman (Anthropology; New School for Social Research, New York), Ansgar Nünning (English and American Literature; University of Gießen), Joseph Ford (French Studies; IMLR, University of London), Sarah Churchwell (Public Understanding of the Humanities; University of London), Anne Fuchs (German Studies; Humanities Institute, University College Dublin), Marek Tamm (History; Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University).
23-Nov-2020	Capturing the Zeitgeist. Tracking Words in German and English Dictionaries Online Panel discussion in the context of the 2020 DAAD/IMLR German Language Competition 'Das Wort der Zukunft'. Panellists: Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, Editor-in-Chief of the German publishing house DUDEN, and Wendalyn Nichols, Publishing Manager at Cambridge University Press. Introduced by Ralf Teepe (German Embassy London), and chaired by Rosie Goldsmith, Director of The European Literature Network.
17-Nov-2019	At Home I Speak Participation in a Panel Discussion on Growing up Multilingually; part of the being Human Festival, Rich Mix Cultural Centre, Bethnal Green
01-Nov-2019	Initiatives Promoting Women in Translation: the Encounters Seminar Series Contribution to a Panel Presentation and Discussion at the 'Translating Women' conference, IMLR
25-Oct-2019	'Wandern & Plaudern mit Fontane': Book Launch and Talk Book launch event organised with the Fontane-Archiv, Universitaet Potsdam; Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preussischen Geschichte, Potsdam
25-Sep-2019	Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood. Integration, Community and Co-Habitation Two day conference, co-organised by IMLR and Humanities Institute, Dublin; 25-26 September 2019
28-Jun-2019	Writing Victoria and Albert: A Conversation with 'Victoria' scriptwriter Daisy Goodwin Event to celebrate the prize-winners of the 2019 DAAD/IMLR German writing competition, German Embassy London.
30-May-2019	Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women's Writing A 2-day conference, organised at the IMLR, 30-31 May 2019
30-May-2019	Encounter: Katja Petrowskaja and Shelley Frisch A Conversation with Petrowskaja and Frisch about Petrowskaja's book 'Vielleicht Esther' and Frisch's translation 'Maybe Esther'.
30-Apr-2019	Making Theatre in Exile Performance of IMLR archive texts involving the theatre group 'Foreign Affairs', co-organised with Clare George, discussion and Q&A.
25-Feb-2019	‘Damals, dann und danach’. Symposium in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Barbara Honigmann  Symposium, co-organised with Robert Gillett (QMUL), at the IMLR
30-Aug-2018	Jewishness in the German Studies Curriculum  Paper given as part of a panel on 'Expanding the German Studies Curriculum' at the AGS at Bangor University
25-Jun-2018	Transnational and Translingual Urban Writing  A workshop co-organised with UCD  at the IMLR
27-Apr-2018	Contemporary Jewish Women's Writing in Germany and Austria: A 'Minor' Literature?  Workshop, co-organised with Dr Maria Roca-Lizarazu, IMLR
16-Apr-2018	The Importance of Literature in Modern Languages  Paper presented at the conference 'Our Uncommon Ground: Modern Languages & Cultures for the 21st Century', Durham University
01-Mar-2018	'A New Language - a New Life?' Translingual Writing by Contemporary Women Authors  Symposium organised at the IMLR
27-Jun-2017	'Metropolis' (4-day DAAD-sponsored Summer School for postgraduate students in German)  Summer school organised at the IMLR
25-Nov-2016	Germanistik in the UK: current situation and initiatives Contribution to a one-day symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris: 'Teaching and Research in 'Strategically Important' Languages. A Comparative Perspective between France and the UK'
21-Oct-2016	Gadji Beri Bimba Public engagement activity as part of 'Cabaret Voltaire', an event on DADA poetry at the Bloomsbury Festival
24-Oct-2015	What Have You Got in Your Pockets? Poetry and Translation Workshop Public engagement activity as part of the Bloomsbury Festival
15-Oct-2015	AS Byatt in Conversation with Martin Swales and G. Weiss-Sussex Biennial Bithell Memorial event; public engagement activity
30-Sep-2015	Translation Competition: Walpurgistag Public engagement activity, launched in cooperation with the DAAD
12-Dec-2014	'Dinggedicht' poetry competition Public engagement activity. Collaboration with the DAAD and the British Museum (Oct-Dec 2014); including a prize-giving event at the British Museum (12 December 2014), supported by the German Embassy
12-Dec-2014	‘The Power of the Object in German Literature’ Public engagement event. Collaboration with the British Museum: Lecture and Reading at British Museum Late Event
11-Dec-2014	'Die Biographie des Dings' Public engagement activity. Writing workshop led by Berlin author Annett Groeschner
05-Jul-2012	Auf der Spur alter Berliner Warenhaeuser Public Engagement activity. Guided tour through Berlin with Michael Bienert: locations of early 20th century Berlin department stores
05-Jul-2012	Das Berliner Warenhaus - Kommerz und Imagination Public engagement event: reading by Berlin author Annett Groeschner; Literaturhaus Berlin
01-Mar-2012	Narratives and Ageing Public engagement event: Reading by Jane Gardam and Martin Walser
03-Jul-2011	Shakespeare - a German Writer Public engagement event. With Globe Education (Globe Theatre London): Two performances of lecture-cum-performance plus additional public lecture at the International Shakespeare Festival, Globe Theatre, Neuss am Rhein, Germany
11-Nov-2010	Berlin: A Clash of Histories Public engagement event. Bithell Memorial Lecture by broadcaster Matt Frei
14-Oct-2010	Shakespeare - ein deutscher Dramatiker Public engagement event. With Globe Education (Globe Theatre London): production of lecture-cum-performance at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
22-Sep-2009	The Good German Public Engagement event. Reading by American writer Joseph Kanon

Knowledge transfer activities:

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Writing the Lives of Those that Stayed Behind. Georg Hermann’s Long-Lost Exile Novel ‘Die daheim blieben’ Invited Talk (Leo Baeck Institute and Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies), London; 21 March 2024
Reporting the Other Organisation and Chairing of Panel discussion with BBC- , Sky News and ARD journalists, 25 october 2024, SAS
Postmigrantisch schreiben? Multilinguale Verfahren und narrative Neudeutungen in zeitgenössischer deutsch-jüdischer Literatur Invited paper at the University of Innsbruck, 1 June 2023
'allerbester GH'. Georg Hermanns unveröffentlichter Exilroman Die daheim blieben Paper presented at conference ‚Vom gesicherten und ungesicherten Leben. Neue Perspektiven auf das Werk des deutsch-jüdischen Schriftstellers Georg Hermann‘ in Wuppertal, 25 March 2022
'But Are they Any Good?' Researching German-Jewish Women Writers of the Early 20th Century Paper presented at inaugural SASiety symposium, 8 March 2021
Covid and the Woman Writer Conference co-organised with Caragh Wells (Bristol), 30 April 2021, IMLR/ CCWW (online)
panel ‘Chick Lit as World Literature(s): minor reputation and major circulation, transitions and transformations’ Chair and respondent at this panel of the conference ‘World Literature and the Minor’, University of Leuven, 6 May 2021 (online)
Kerstin Hensels Oderbruch-Text ‘Die Flötenfinger des Birnbaums’ (2019) als Antwort auf Fontanes Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg Paper presented at conference 'Kerstin Hensel: Critical Anatomies of the Everyday / Kritische Anatomien des Alltags', University of Glasgow (online), 4 June 20201
Uebersetzungsszenen Conference co-organised with Robert Leucht and Angela Sanmann-Graf (Lausanne); 2 July 2021, online
‚Ljubljú tebjá. Schrecklich sehr!‘ Mehrsprachigkeit und Identitätskonstruktion in Texten deutsch-jüdischer Autorinnen Paper presented at the quintennial IVG conference in Palermo, 26 July 2021 (online)
‘S schewó natschináetjsa ródina, was ist es, womit Heimat beginnt?’. Multilingualismus und Zugehörigkeit in deutschen Texten jüdischer Autorinnen der 2010er Jahre Paper presented at AGS annual conference, Swansea (online), 2 September 2021
'Berlin department store novels 1900-1930: between populist pulp and emancipatory counter-discourse'. Talk for the Book and Print Initiative, SAS, 21 October 2021.
From 'Where are you from?' to 'Where shall we go together?'. Re-imagining Home and Belonging in 21st-Century Women's Writingy A two-day conference, co-organised with Maria Roca Lizarazu; IMLR, 23-24 September 2020 (online conference)
Space, Time and Language in Das überirdische Licht  Paper presented at ‘Damals, dann und danach’. Symposium in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Barbara Honigmann, IMLR, 25 February 2019
Translingual Writing: Definitions and Parameters Introductory paper at conference 'Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women's Writing', 30 May 2019, IMLR
'Wandern & Plaudern mit Fontane' Book preview at the annual Fontane Fruehjahrstreffen conference, German Historical Institute, 10 May 2019
Moving Beyond the 'Heimat' Concept: German-Jewish Perspectives Paper presented at the MLA International Symposium (Remembering Voices Lost) in Lisbon, Portugal, on 24 July 2019
Women's Voices in the German Heimat Discourse Before, During and After the First World war Panel Convened at the MLA Symposium, Lisbon, July 2019
Monism, Eugenics and (the Limits of) Female Agency  Invited talk presented as part of the Medical Histories and Humanities Seminar series at the University of Exeter, 8 February 2018
Translingual Creativity and Belonging in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther (2014)  Paper presented at Symposium 'A New Language - a New Life?' Translingual Literature by Contemporary Women Writers, IMLR, 1 March 2018
'Du bist frei, deine Heimat hat dich freigegeben!' Elisabeth Landau's literary assessment of the situation of the German Jews after the First World War  Paper presented at the conference 'Literatur, Sprache und Kultur zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik', at the University of Bucharest, 25 October 2018
Elisabeth Landau's Novel 'Der Holzweg' (1918): A Gendered Discussion of Heimat and Nation Paper presented at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, 5 January 2017
Gender and Nation: German-Jewish Women Authors, 1870-1918 Organisation of a Special Session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, 5 January 2017
'Das doppelte Martyrium des Weibseins und des Judentums': Femininity and Jewishness in the Works of Female German-Jewish Writers in Berlin (1900-1918) Invited Talk at the University of Nottingham (School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Research Seminar Series)on 22 March 2017
'Jeder Stern schien mir ein geheimer Verwandter zu sein': Heimat, Language, and Identity in Katja Petrowskaja, 'Vielleicht Esther' (2014) Paper presented at the Forty-first Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (US), Atlanta, GA, on 6 October 2017
Ein weiblicher Entwurf der Befreiung aus unheimlicher Heimat: Elisabeth Landaus Roman 'Der Holzweg' (1918) Paper presented at the conference 'Unheimliche Heimatraeume' at the Facultad de Letras, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, on 20 September 2017
Heimattreue oder nomadische Emanzipation? Elisabeth Landaus Roman Der Holzweg (1918) Paper presented at the conference 'Women and Heimat in German Literature and Visual Culture, 1871-1933', 12-13 May, IMLR (co-organisers: Caroline Bland and G. Weiss-Sussex)
Berlin: Early 20th-Century Department Stores Paper presented at SAS launch event of Cities@SAS research hub, 1 June 2016
Juedin und Moderne Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies (AGS), Newcastle, 2 September 2016
Department Stores and the Discourse of Modernity in early 20th-Century Berlin Fiction Invited talk at the Centre for Metropolitan History seminar series, Institute for Historical Research (IHR), School of Advanced Study, University of London, on 12 October 2016
Book launch: 'Juedin und Moderne' Paper presented at the conference 'Juedin und Moderne: German-Jewish Women's Writing in the early 20th Century and in Exile', 20 October, IMLR
Feminism, Motherhood and Eugenics in pre-WWI Berlin; or: How to promote reform through literary writing? Paper presented at Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar (16/2/15), University of Cambridge
The department store as habitat of the sophisticated urbanite: Georg Hermann’s 'Der kleine Gast' (1925) Conference paper presented at the conference 'Urban Microcosms' at the University of Bristol, 14-16 September
Book Launch: Tales of Commerce and Imagination Paper presented at the launch of this volume on the department store as symbol of modernity in film and Literature, co-edited by G Weiss-Sussex and U. Zitzlsperger.
'Confronting Stereotypes: Department Store Novels by German-Jewish Authors, 1916-1925’ Paper presented at the School of Humanities, University of Exeter (research seminar)
Die Literarisierung naturwissenschaftlicher Weltanschauung: Die Form des monistischen Entwicklungsromans Paper presented at the conference 'German Literature and Biological Thought around 1900' at the IMLR
Ein deutsch-jüdischer Zeitroman aus weiblicher Perspektive: Audnals 'Der Holzweg' (1918) als Absage an das Projekt der Assimilation Paper presented at the annual Women in German Studies (WIGS)conference
'Modern Women' Paper presented (with Flora Willson) at King's College, Cambridge (Research Seminar)
'Femininity, Jewishness and the City: Jewish Women Writers in Early 20th-Century Berlin' Paper presented at Director's Seminar series at the IMLR
Großstadtjüdinnen. Konzepte einer literarischen Figur in Romanen jüdischer Autorinnen um 1900 Paper presented at the annual Women in German Studies (WIGS)conference
Tales of the Unexpected: German-Jewish Women Writers in early 20th Century Berlin Paper presented at the German Department, University of Cambridge (research seminar)
Feminismus, Eugenik und Judentum: Grete Meisel Hess Keynote at conference ‘Deutsch-jüdische Schriftstellerinnen um 1900’ in Porto, Portugal
Femininity, Jewishness and the City: Jewish Women Writers in Early 20th-Century Berlin Invited Lecture at City University, New York (CUNY)
‘Reformprogrammatik und Romanästhetik: Romane aus dem Umkreis des Bunds fuer Mutterschutz' Paper presented at the conference 'Protest and Reform in Wilhelmine German Culture' at the IMLR
'Juedische Reaktionen auf antisemitische Warenhaus-Literatur' Paper presented at the conference 'Kommerz und Imagination II: Literarische und filmische Beiträge zur Warenhaus-Debatte im frühen 20. Jahrhundert' at the Literaturhaus Berlin
Tales of the Unexpected: German-Jewish Women Writers in early 20th Century Berlin Paper presented as part of the Dean's Seminars series at SAS
'Juedische Schriftstellerinnen in Berlin' Invited Lecture at the Freie Universitaet Berlin
‘Nun sind sie da, für die du gekämpft.’ Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922) als Autorin in der Nachfolge Hedwig Dohms (1831 – 1919) Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies (AGS)
‘The Mental Life of a Metropolitan Dweller. Georg Hermann’s Novel Die Nacht des Doktor Herzfeld (1912)’ Keynote at conference ‘Topography and Literature: Berlin and Modernism’ in Sewanee, Tennessee (The University of the South)

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