Suzanne Keen is a literary scholar, feminist critic, a poet, author and academic administrator.

Her resignation letter states she intends to return to teaching at Scripps after a sabbatical on the East Coast to be near elderly family members.

[4] She has also published widely on contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, and narrative theory.

Keen's administrative appointments began with terms as Chair of Department of English in 2010, and Interim Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University in 2012.

[13] A selection of these essays and chapters appeared in 2022 under the title Empathy and Reading: Affect, Impact, and the Co-Creating Reader.