Literary scholar, feminist critic, poet, author and academic administrator
Awards
Younger Scholars Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities The Academy of American Poets Prize, Harvard University
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
Academic background
Education
A.B., English Literature (Honors) and Studio Art A.M., Creative Writing M.A., English Language and Literature Ph.D., English Language and Literature
Alma mater
Brown University Harvard University
Thesis
Narrative annexes: Resources of difference and kind (1990)
Doctoral advisor
Philip Fisher
Academic work
Discipline
English literature
Institutions
Scripps College Hamilton College Washington and Lee University Yale University
Suzanne Keen is a literary scholar, feminist critic, a poet, author and academic administrator. She was W. M. Keck Foundation Presidential Chair and Professor of English at Scripps College, the women's college of the Claremont Colleges. Previously she served as Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.[1] She became president of Scripps College on July 1, 2022.[2] Dr. Keen announced her resignation from Scripps College effective March 20, 2023. Her resignation letter states she intends to return to teaching at Scripps after a sabbatical on the East Coast to be near elderly family members.[3]
Keen is best known for her work on narrative empathy. She has published numerous essays and chapters on aspects of narrative empathy, extending the theories and applications of her book, Empathy and the Novel (2007).[4] She has also published widely on contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, and narrative theory.[5]
From 2012 until 2018, Keen co-edited the Oxford University Press journal Contemporary Women's Writing.[6]
^"Hamilton Names New Dean of Faculty and VPAA".
^Engineer, Anushe (19 November 2021). "Scripps appoints Suzanne Keen as 10th president". The Student Life. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^Weaver, Hannah (2023-03-20). "Suzanne Keen resigns after eight months as Scripps president". The Student Life. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
^McGann, Tara (2009). "Reviewed work: Empathy and the Novel, SUZANNE KEEN". Studies in the Novel. 41 (2): 263–265. doi:10.1353/sdn.0.0060. JSTOR 24027156. S2CID 161745995.
^"Suzanne Keen - Google Scholar".
^"Suzanne Keen Named Co-Editor of Contemporary Women's Writing". 5 July 2012.
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