Dr. Susan Felch

Director, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Professor of English

Biography

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

Hobbies

Cats
Books
Boating on Lake Wabasis
Watching swans
Cats
Biking
Hiking
Cats
Watching movies

Additional Information

Faculty Profile: Susan Felch, Calvin News and Stories
Christian Scholarship at Calvin College
Selected Readings of Bible Stories

Education

Professor Felch received her undergraduate degree in music from Wheaton College and also earned her MA in theology from Wheaton. After 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. Professor Felch has served as a mentor for the Lilly Graduate Fellows program, is the Executive Editor of the Independent Works of William Tyndale, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops.

Academic Interests

Sixteenth-century British literature
religion and literature
cultural studies and literary theory

Professional Associations

Named the director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship at Calvin in 2008
Named Executive Editor of The Independent Works of William Tyndale in 2012

Awards

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.”