A specialist in disability studies and a scholar of early modern literature and autobiography, Susannah is the author of four monographs, including Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity (Delaware: 2003), Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities (North Carolina: 2007), Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body (Bloomsbury: 2014), and The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Bloomsbury: 2019). The Disabled Detective was nominated for the 2019 MLA James Russell Lowell Prize. She is co-editor of three volumes: a critical anthology on the essayist Nancy Mairs, the Long Eighteenth Century volume of Bloomsbury’s forthcoming Cultural History of Disability, and a two-volume Gale-Cengage disability memoir encyclopedia, which received honorable mention for the Dartmouth Medal (awarded annually to a reference work of quality and significance). She served on the Executive committee of the MLA Division on Disability Studies for five years, and has been on the editorial board of numerous academic journals. Her work has been reprinted in several anthologies and solicited for inclusion in special editions of literary and scholarly volumes.