Susan Felch, Director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, Professor, English
616-526-6591
felch@calvin.edu
Office: LN 115 (directions)
Weekly Schedule
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Educational/Professional Background
Professor Felch received her undergraduate degree in music from Wheaton College in 1972. She went on to study theology at Wheaton, earning her MA with highest honor in 1974. After spending many years teaching high school music and English, Professor Felch entered a doctoral program in literature at the Catholic University of America. She received her PhD in 1991 and joined the Calvin College English department in 1992.
Academic Interests/Areas of Specialization
Sixteenth-century British literature, religion and literature, cultural studies and literary theory
Recent Activities
Professor Felch was recently named the director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship at Calvin. In 2008, she co-edited a publication, The Emmaus Reader, which received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly. The second volume of The Emmaus Reader, edited by Professor Felch and Gary Schmidt, will be available in May 2009. Her book, Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers was just published by Ashgate Press, and a Norton Critical Edition paperback, Elizabeth I and Her Age, a volume she co-edited with Donald V. Stump, is forthcoming in January 2009. Professor Felch is co-director of the Kuiper Seminar, a course for new faculty at Calvin, and she is currently serving on the ad-hoc committee on Reformed identity and mission.
Hobbies
Cats, books, boating on Lake Wabasis, watching swans, cats, biking, hiking, cats, watching movies
Favorite Books
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan, The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis, The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, the Serrailler mystery series by Susan Hill, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi, Otherwise by Jane Kenyon, Emma by Jane Austen
Additional Information
Faculty Profile: Susan Felch, Calvin News and Stories
A Faith-Shaped Approach to English Studies
Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season, the Calvin College Spark
The Emmaus Reader's starred review in Publisher's Weekly
Task force to study Calvin’s Reformed identity, mission, the Calvin College Spark
