Susanna Sacks

Susanna Sacks is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of Wooster. She holds a B.A. from Haverford College (2013), an M.A. (2015), and a Ph.D. (2019) from Northwestern University. Her research focuses on new media's impact on literary forms in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Malawi, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. She explores how digital spaces shape poetry, performance, and community interactions.

Her teaching includes global Anglophone literature, poetry studies, and digital humanities. Courses taught at Wooster include 'Global English(es), Local Identities,' 'Postcolonial Poetics,' and 'Introduction to African Literature.' She previously taught at Northwestern University.

Her publications analyze digital activism in Zimbabwe, authoritarian regimes' cultural practices, and slam poetry's translingual dimensions. She is affiliated with the College of Wooster's English department and uses her office in Kauke Hall (221).