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The Project Narrative Podcast Features Professor Suzanne Keen
Ohio State University’s Project Narrative podcast has featured Professor of English Suzanne Keen on a recent episode. The monthly series spotlights a narrative theorist who selects a short passage to […]
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Professor Suzanne Keen Discusses Gender Dynamics in Novel Reading for DAZED
In an article by DAZED Magazine, Professor of English Suzanne Keen delves into the gender dynamics in literary consumption, investigating why straight men tend to read fewer novels compared to […]
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Scripps Magazine: The Art and Science of Empathy
By Jen A. Miller Illustrations by Saskia Keultjes Early in her research, President Suzanne Keen—a narrative empathy theorist who studies the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism—became convinced that […]
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Scripps Magazine: Welcome, President Keen
Scripps College welcomes its 10th president, Suzanne Keen, an internationally known narrative empathy theorist whose work as a leader, scholar, and teacher is animated by an ethic of care.
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In the Media: Suzanne Keen Featured on The Nexus Podcast
President Suzanne Keen is featured on The Nexus Podcast as part of the podcast’s three-part series on storytelling in the workplace.
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In the Media: Suzanne Keen Article on Narrative Empathy Published in Philosophy Journal
President Suzanne Keen has published an article, “Narrative Empathy and the Challenge of the Unrelatable,” in Bollettino Filosofico, an Italian philosophy journal.
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Suzanne Keen Contributes Text to Art Book on Sarah Oppenheimer
The book examines how four of the artist’s interactive artworks “break down barriers between art, audience, and architecture.”
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Suzanne Keen Reviews Furnace Creek in Los Angeles Review of Books
Keen hails it as a “hilarious and heart-rending” recasting of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in the Civil Rights-era South.
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President Suzanne Keen’s Empathy and Reading Now Available from Routledge
“As people, it’s in our nature to relate to one another’s stories,” Keen explains. “When we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people’s perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own.”
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In the Media: Suzanne Keen Appointed President of Scripps College, Chronicle of Higher Education Reports
The Chronicle of Higher Education announced Suzanne Keen’s appointment as 10th president of Scripps College. The Board of Trustees unanimously appointed Keen on November 18, and she will step into the role on July 1, 2022.
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