Susan Felch, Director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, Professor, English
616-526-6591
felch@calvin.edu
Office: CFAC 285
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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 named the director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship at Calvin in 2008. Recent publications include two volumes of The Emmaus Readers: Listening for God in Contemporary Fiction (Paraclete 2008, 2009), co‐edited with Gary Schmidt, and Elizabeth I and Her Age (W. W. Norton, 2009), coedited with Donald V. Stump, which received the 2010 Translation or Teaching Edition prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. In 2009, she won the Josephine A. Roberts Scholarly Edition Award for her book Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers (Ashgate, 2008), and in 2000, she received an honorable mention for her first book, The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock (RETS, 1999), both of which were recognized as “significant and authoritative contributions to the field of early modern scholarship.” 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
- Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season, the Calvin College Spark
- CCCS Director Reception
- The Emmaus Reader's starred review in Publisher's Weekly
- Task force to study Calvin’s Reformed identity, mission, the Calvin College Spark
- Download a curriculum vitae
