19 Facts About Suzanne Keen

Suzanne Keen is a literary scholar, feminist critic, a poet, author and academic administrator.

Suzanne Keen was W M Keck Foundation Presidential Chair and Professor of English at Scripps College, the women's college of the Claremont Colleges.

Suzanne Keen became president of Scripps College on July 1,2022.

Dr Keen announced her resignation from Scripps College effective March 20,2023.

Suzanne Keen is best known for her work on narrative empathy.

Suzanne Keen has published numerous essays and chapters on aspects of narrative empathy, extending the theories and applications of her book, Empathy and the Novel.

Suzanne Keen has published widely on contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, and narrative theory.

From 2012 until 2018, Suzanne Keen co-edited the Oxford University Press journal Contemporary Women's Writing.

Suzanne Keen studied at Brown University and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Studio Art in 1984, and a master's degree in Creative Writing in 1986.

Suzanne Keen then enrolled at Harvard University and earned her Master's and doctorate in English Language and Literature in 1987 and 1990, respectively.

Suzanne Keen held an appointment as an assistant professor of English in 1990 at Yale University.

Suzanne Keen then joined Washington and Lee University as assistant professor of English in 1995, and was promoted to associate professor in 1997, and to Professor of English in 2001.

Suzanne Keen was named Dean of the College in 2013, a role she served in until 2018, when she became Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Hamilton College, concluding a four-year term in 2022.

Suzanne Keen is best known for her work on narrative empathy.

Suzanne Keen's books include Thomas Hardy's Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy's Imagination Empathy and the Novel, Narrative Form, Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, and Victorian Renovations of the Novel.

Suzanne Keen published an article in 2006 proposing a theory of narrative empathy, while highlighting the processes and techniques of neuroscientific and psychological investigation of empathy.

Suzanne Keen posed a series of questions about the impact of narrative empathy on readers.

Suzanne Keen's published poetry has appeared in Chelsea, The English Journal, The Graham House Review, The House Mountain Review, The Ohio Review, Quarterly West, and The Rhode Island Review, among others.

Suzanne Keen has authored a book of poems, Milk Glass Mermaid.