Susanne Zepp

Zepp received her M.A. in Romance Studies, Comparative Literature, and Modern German Studies at the University of Wuppertal. Starting in 1997 she served as a lecturer at the Institute for Romance Philology at the University of Wuppertal. She received her doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin in Romance Philology in 2002. From 2003 to 2015, she served as the Deputy Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture{{Cite web |title=Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow |url=https://www.dubnow.de/en/person/prof-dr-susanne-zepp |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=www.dubnow.de |language=en}} at the University of Leipzig, and from 2011 to 2023, she was Full Professor of Romance Philology{{Cite web |title=Professors' Timeline of the Romance Philology Institute at Freie Universität Berlin (only in German) |date=31 October 2007 |url=https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/institut/vorstellung/geschichte/professuren/index.html}} at Freie Universität Berlin. Starting with the summer semester of 2023, she has served as a professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures at the University of Duisburg-Essen.{{Cite web |title=Researchers' Portraits: Susanne Zepp |url=https://www.netzwerk-fgf.nrw.de/en/wissenschaftlerinnen/portrait?tx_p2fgf_pi2%5Baction%5D=show&tx_p2fgf_pi2%5Bcontroller%5D=Person&tx_p2fgf_pi2%5Buid%5D=794&cHash=e913aaa1c81b91079e8e9878c1d706fe |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=The Women's & Gender Research Network}}

As of 2025 Zepp is co-editor of the Romanistisches Jahrbuch (Yearbook of Romance Languages and Literatures).{{Cite web |title=Romanistisches Jahrbuch |url=https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/roma/html |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=De Gruyter |language=en}} From 2019 to 2023, she served as President of the German Hispanist Association.{{Cite web |date=2019-04-04 |title=Professor at Freie Universität Berlin Elected Chairperson of German Hispanic Association |url=https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2019/fup_19_082-susanne-zepp-vorsitzende-deutscher-hispanistenverband/index.html |access-date=2024-07-05 |website=www.fu-berlin.de |language=en}}

Her research focuses on Spanish literature (Middle Ages, early modern period, 20th century), Latin American, Portuguese, and French literature (Middle Ages, early modern period, 19th and 20th century), literary and cultural theory, Jewish literatures, and law and literature.

• Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War (ed. Raanan Rein), London: Routledge (Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain), 2023.
• Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese. A Comprehensive Handbook (ed. with Ruth Fine), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
• Migration und Avantgarde. (ed. with Stephanie Bung), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
• Nobelpreisträgerinnen. 14 Schriftstellerinnen im Porträt (ed. with Claudia Olk), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
• An Early Self. Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627, Redwood: Stanford University Press, 2014.Review of An Early Self
• {{Cite journal |last=Quinn |first=Mary B. |date=2016 |title=Review of An Early Self: Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44211312 |journal=Comparative Literature |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=359–361 |issn=0010-4124}}
• Portugiesisch-brasilianische Literaturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung, Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2014 (= UTB 2498).
• Hispanistik (zus. mit Natascha Pomino) (= UTB 2498), Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2004 (2. Auflage 2008).Review of Hispanistik
• {{Cite journal |last=Pichardo |first=Juan Pedro Rojas |last2=Schütz |first2=Jutta |date=2006 |title=Review of Hispanistik. (UTB, 2498) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27942576 |journal=Romanische Forschungen |volume=118 |issue=4 |pages=550–552 |issn=0035-8126}}
• Jorge Luis Borges und die Skepsis, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2003.Review of Jorge Luis Borges und die Skepsis
• {{Cite journal |last=Simon |first=Diana García |date=2006 |title=Review of Jorge Luis Borges und die Skepsis. (Text und Kontext, 20) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27942506 |journal=Romanische Forschungen |volume=118 |issue=2 |pages=281–282 |issn=0035-8126}}

In 2023, she was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which was presented by the Spanish ambassador {{Ill|Ricardo Martínez Vázquez|lt=Ricardo Martínez Vázquez|es}}.{{Cite web |last=Becker |first=Cathrin |date=December 12, 2023 |title=Susanne Zepp-Zwirner geehrt |url=https://www.uni-due.de/2023-12-12-spanischer-verdienstorden-susanne-zepp-zwirner |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Meldungen aus der UDE}}

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