Susan Ray

Susan E. Ray earned her Ph.D. in English, Literature & Rhetoric from Binghamton University in 2012. She is an Associate Professor of English at Delaware County Community College outside Philadelphia and has taught composition and literature for two decades at community colleges and universities including Binghamton University, Temple University, Penn State, and Valley Forge Military College. A scholar of nineteenth-century literature and popular culture studies, her work has appeared in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Studies, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Gale Cengage), and several edited collections, as well as public scholarship in EdSurge.

Ray is the recipient of the 2025 Virginia M. Carter Grant for her project Bridging the AI Gap, an initiative that embeds ethical, transparent AI use into first-year composition while fostering interdisciplinary faculty collaboration. Her literature and writing courses integrate AI literacy, academic integrity, and inclusive pedagogy, with a particular focus on supporting neurodivergent learners. She has shared her work on AI integration at conferences, faculty trainings, and public lectures.

Areas of Expertise

• Designing AI-integrated curricula
• Teaching AI literacy to faculty and students
• AI strategies for neurodivergent learners
• Teaching of composition and developmental writing
• Inclusive pedagogy
• Nineteenth-century British literature