Susanna Kelly Engbers
Susanna Kelly Engbers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Program: Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Courses taught: Written Rhetoric, Advanced Rhetoric, Shakespeare on Film, Jane Austen on Film
- Length of time at KCAD: since Fall 2004
- Education: Ph.D., Rhetoric, Catholic University of America, Washington DC; M.A., English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, B.A., English, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
- Professional Accomplishments: After receiving her bachelor’s degree in English in 1993, Assistant Professor Engbers taught English and German to high school students in Prague, Czech Republic. She returned to the U.S. and earned her master’s degree in English literature in 1996, after which she moved to Washington, DC, to work as managing editor for two academic journals. In 1998, she began work on her doctoral degree in rhetoric and composition. Along with her husband she moved to Grand Rapids in 2001, and completed her PhD in 2004, the same year she began working at Kendall. Her area of specialty is nineteenth-century rhetoric, and, in particular, women’s rhetoric. Her recent article on this subject, “With Great Sympathy: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Innovative Appeals to Emotion” appears in the Summer 2007 issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She has also published in composition pedagogy, and currently is working on two projects—one having to do with the teaching of writing and the other dealing with the oratory of nineteenth-century Quaker women.
