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Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex's main research interests lie in the culture and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the following areas: the representation of the city in literature and the visual arts; the relationship between literary text, contemporary aesthetic theory and the visual arts; the works of German-Jewish writers produced in Germany and in exile. Her current research project is a study of German-speaking Jewish women writers 1900-1938. Her publications include: 'Not an Essence but a Poistioning': German-Jewish Women Writers (1900-1938) (ed. with Andrea Hammel, 2009); London German Studies XII: 'The Racehorse of Genius'. Literary and Cultural Comparisons (ed. with Martin Liebscher and Ben Schofield, 2009); ‘Verwisch’ die Spuren!’. Bertolt Brecht’s Work and Legacy – A Reassessment (ed., with Robert Gillett: 2008); Berlin. Kultur und Metropole in den Zwanziger und seit den Neunziger Jahren (ed., with Ulrike Zitzlsperger: 2007); Urban Mindscapes of Europe (ed. with Franco Bianchini: 2006); Georg Hermann. Deutsch-jüdischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, 1871-1943 (ed. 2004); and Metropolitan Chronicles. Georg Hermann's Berlin Novels 1897 to 1912 (2000).
