Susan M. Comfort

Susan M. Comfort serves as an Associate Professor in the Language, Literature, and Writing Department within the College of Arts, Humanities, Media, and Public Affairs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her office is located in 506-W Leonard Hall on the IUP campus in Indiana, PA.

Professor Comfort specializes in interdisciplinary literary studies with research interests spanning Environmental Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Women's Literature, and Feminist and Gender Studies. Her academic work bridges ecological concerns with postcolonial and feminist theoretical frameworks, examining how literature engages with issues of identity, power, and environmental justice across different cultural contexts.

As a faculty member in the English program, she contributes to the department's mission of fostering critical thinking and literary analysis through diverse theoretical approaches. Her research interests suggest engagement with contemporary debates in ecocriticism, decolonial theory, and gender studies within literary scholarship.