Susanne Zepp


Susanne Zepp is a German literary scholar.
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Education and career

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 at the University of Leipzig, and from 2011 to 2023, she was Full Professor of Romance Philology 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.
As of 2025 Zepp is co-editor of the Romanistisches Jahrbuch. From 2019 to 2023, she served as President of the German Hispanist Association.

Work

Her research focuses on Spanish literature, Latin American, Portuguese, and French literature, literary and cultural theory, Jewish literatures, and law and literature.

Selected publications

Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War, London: Routledge, 2023.Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese. A Comprehensive Handbook, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.Migration und Avantgarde., Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.Nobelpreisträgerinnen. 14 Schriftstellerinnen im Porträt, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.An Early Self. Jewish Belonging in Romance Literature, 1499-1627, Redwood: Stanford University Press, 2014.Portugiesisch-brasilianische Literaturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung, Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2014.Hispanistik, Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2004.Jorge Luis Borges und die Skepsis, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2003.

Honors and awards

In 2023, she was awarded the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which was presented by the Spanish ambassador.