Susan Kollin Named to Distinguished Professorship

Susan Kollin was named Letters and Science Distinguished Professor at Montana State University. She has been on the English department faculty at the university since 1995. Her research and teaching focuses on the literature and film of the American West, environmental issues, and feminist theory.

Professor Kollin, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, is the author of Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and the editor of Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).