Susan Osborn is an American writer, editor, and a scholar of modern British and Irish literature and rhetoric and composition who teaches in the English department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, on a part-time basis as a lecturer.
[3] Earlier in her tenure at Rutgers, she served as research director and development coordinator for the New Jersey Center for Research on Writing.
[5] Much of her scholarly work focuses on modern British and Irish culture, history, and literature, though she is renowned as an Elizabeth Bowen scholar.
[6][7] She served as guest editor for Purdue University's scholarly journal, Modern Fiction Studies, (Summer 2007) issue, which was a Special Issue devoted exclusively to the work of Elizabeth Bowen.
She contributed the introduction to that edition and an essay titled "Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen.