Susan Hrach
Professor of English / Faculty Center Director
English, Department of
Professor of English / Faculty Center Director
Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
Education - Higher Education, Leadership - Higher Education, Online Learning, Teaching
Education and Certifications
B.A., American Studies and German, University of Notre Dame, 1989M.A., English, University of Alabama, 1991
Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 1998
Biography
Dr. Susan Hrach is the author of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Award-winning book _Minding Bodies: how physical space, sensation, and movement affect learning_ (WVU Press, 2021). As an undergraduate, she spent a year studying at the Universität Innsbruck, Austria, which shaped her lifelong interests in world literature, translation studies, and global education. Her experiences teaching internationally inform her on-going research and practice. In 2022-23 she is serving as Fulbright Canada Distinguished Research Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.Since 2012 she has served as director of the Faculty Center and professor of English at Columbus State University in Georgia. Recognized by the University System of Georgia with a statewide Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, she has also served as a scholar for the USG’s Executive Leadership Institute. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation and provides executive coaching within and outside of higher education, incorporating embodied strategies to support mental and physical wellbeing.
Academic Areas
Teaching and Learning: Experiential Learning and High Impact PracticesLeadership: Professional Coaching
Discipline-specific: Early Modern Literature, World Literature, and Translation Studies