•  Position: Professor of English, Coordinator of Creative Writing
• Campus Address:  101 College Parkway/ Arnold, MD 21012 (Humanities 113-C)
• Phone: 410-777-2545
• Mail box: Hum 102
• Email: sacohen3@aacc.edu

Classes taught:

• English 121: Saving the Planet: One Bite at a Time
• English 121: Questioning Authority
• English 200: Introduction to Creative Writing
• English 201: Fiction Writing Workshop
• English 204: Creative Nonfiction Workshop
• English 205: Creative Writing Portfolio-Capstone Project
• English 217: American Literature 1945 to the Present
• English 250: The Literature of the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed
• English 275-277: Literary Publishing Practicum

Areas of expertise:

• Contemporary American Literature
• American Nature Writing
• Creative Writing
• Composition
• Coastal Literature
• Ecocriticism

Degrees and Universities:

• University of Maryland, PhD, 1994 (American Literature)
• University of Maryland, MA, 1983 (Creative Writing emphasis)
• State University of New York—Albany, BA, 1978 (History)

Books:

• Caplow, Florence and Cohen, Susan A, eds. Wildbranch:  An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-based Writing. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2010. Print.

• Rosen, Susan A. C. ed. Shorewords: A Collection of American Women’s Coastal Writings. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. Print.
• Rosen, Susan A.C. English 101: Introduction to Writing. College Park: University of Maryland’s University College Press, 1995. Print.

Professional Organizations:

• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
• Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
• League for Innovation at the Community College (LICC)
•  Modern Language Association (MLA)English 204: Creative Nonfiction Workshop