Susan Jean Rosowski (January 2, 1942 – November 2, 2004) was a Western American scholar of literature and the works of Willa Cather.
[1][2] In 1967 she accepted a teaching appointment at the University of Nebraska Omaha, and in 1971 moved to UNL, where she taught courses in English literature, women's studies, women writers of the West, literature of the Plains, and courses on Nebraska authors such as Mari Sandoz and Willa Cather.
The cancer returned in 2001, and progressed, causing her death at the age of 62 on November 2, 2004, in Garland, Nebraska.
In the peak of her career, she published book reviews and participated in professional and community presentations – most of which focused on Willa Cather – numbered in the hundreds.
[1] Rosowski edited volumes of Modern Language Association's Approaches to Teaching Cather's book, My Antonia.