Susanne E. Hall

Dr. Hall's work focuses on academic writing. She oversees and teaches in the curriculum that helps new Caltech students make a successful transition to college writing. The curriculum includes Introduction to Academic Writing (Wr 2), a course that offers students guided practice in the types of critical reading, writing, and library research that characterize academic writing across disciplines. It also includes Principles and Practices of Academic Writing (Wr 4), in which students expand their knowledge of academic writing practices and actively develop and work toward their own goals as writers. She also teaches Personal Narrative and STEM Research (En/Wr 83), a course she created to give Caltech students an opportunity to explore how and why scientists and engineers tell their personal stories of learning and discovery in STEM.

Dr. Hall directs the Hixon Writing Center (HWC), which offers all Caltech writers one-to-one support with academic writing. The HWC can support writers in any discipline at any stage of the writing process.

Dr. Hall's research interests are in the interdisciplinary field of writing studies. Her current projects are in several areas, including generative AI and the teaching and learning of writing, narrative writing by scientists and engineers, and text recycling. She was a co-PI in an NSF-funded study of text recycling in scientific research writing. She was a founding editor of Prompt, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to college writing assignments across disciplines. You can find links to her published writing via ORCID.