Susan J. Rosowski

Susan Jean Rosowski (January 2, 1942 – November 2, 2004) was a Western American scholar of literature and the works of Willa Cather.

Life and education Rosowski was born on January 2, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas. She attended primary school in Phoenix, Arizona, and obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at Whittier College in Whittier, California, in 1967. and also served as a general editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Books

Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature. U of Nebraska Press, 1999. The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism. U of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Awards Rosowski received multiple teaching awards, as well as the Mildred Bennett Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book (1994); Honorary Nebraska Author by the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association (1995–96); the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award for Outstanding Book in American Literary Criticism (2000); and the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award by the University of Nebraska (2004).