Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Winter 2005
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2005, pp. 000-000.
Abstract
Susan J. Rosowski, Adele Hall Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, died November 2, 2004. Sue has been an important voice in the Great Plains Quarterly since the beginning. In addition to publishing a half-dozen essays in the Quarterly, Sue reviewed manuscripts, wrote book reviews, and served as a guest editor on multiple occasions.
As one of the foremost scholars on Willa Cather, Sue served as General Editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, University of Nebraska Press, and was the founding editor of the Willa Cather Archive. Additional examples of her contribution to scholarship is evidenced by her receiving the Western Literature Association's Thomas J. Lyon Award, honoring an outstanding scholarly book on the literature and culture of the American West, for her Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature. Most recently, Sue received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, the University of Nebraska's highest system-wide honor for scholarship. As a teacher, she has been honored by Western Literature Association in their establishing the Susan J. Rosowski Award for Creative Mentoring and Teaching in Western American Literature, and the University of Nebraska Foundation now has the Susan Rosowski Cather Endowment.
We asked several of Sue's colleagues to comment on her life and contributions. Others may honor Sue by contributing to the Susan Rosowski Cather Endowment. You may mail your check to the University of Nebraska Foundation,lOlO Lincoln Mall Ste. 300, Lincoln NE 68508-2886; or to Linda Rossiter, Department of English, 202 Andrews Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0333. On the check, make a note that your gift is for the Susan Rosowski Cather Endowment.
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