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Dr. Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez is Caterpillar Inc. Professor of English at Bradley University. Professor Brill de Ramirez also has an M.B.A. in management and human resource development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with prior work experience as a research analyst for a management consulting firm and additional training focused on the success of women in the higher education workforce (HERS Summer Institute, MLA workshops). Brill de Ramirez's humanities studies began at St. John's College in Maryland, continued at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago, culminating with nonwestern indigenous studies at the University of New Mexico. As a literature scholar, she is a specialist in the fields of Native American literatures, Eco criticism, folklore, and literary criticism and theory. Deeply committed to each student's capacity to learn and succeed at the highest of levels, she is a national Councilor for the Arts & Humanities with the Council for Undergraduate Research, a member of the PMLA Advisory Committee for the Modern Language Association, and the Book Review Editor for the CUR Quarterly. She is an innovator in teaching with extensive experience in college success, undergraduate research, service-learning, ecocomposition, and digital pedagogies (including using videoconferencing and learning management systems for teaching students in the United States and Middle East and bringing distinguished speakers into virtual classrooms for presentations-from globally distinguished writers, scholars and a Fortune 100 CEO). A widely published scholar, she is the author of Wittgenstein and Critical Theory (1995), Contemporary American Indian Literatures and the Oral Tradition (1999), Native American Life-History Narratives (2007), and with Evelina Zuni Lucero, co-editor of Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance (2009). In her scholarly work, Professor Brill de Ramirez is currently exploring the ecocritical concepts of placefulness and geographies of belonging in transformative features in literary poetics and narrative.

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