Susan Lang
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Professor and Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
Areas of Expertise
- Technical communication
- Rhetoric, composition and literacy
- Hypertext theory
- Writing program administration
Education
- PhD, Emory University, 1992
- MA, Emory University, 1989
- BA, The Ohio State University, 1987
Susan Lang is Professor of English at The Ohio State University and Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing (CSTW). Her work focuses on technical and scientific communication, writing development at scale, and the design of instructional systems that support writing across disciplines.
Trained in English and rhetoric, Lang’s teaching and research are deeply embedded in scientific and technical contexts. She has co-developed and co-taught a graduate scientific writing course in Chemistry for nearly a decade, collaborates closely with STEM faculty, and works at the intersection of writing pedagogy and scientific practice.
As Director of CSTW, Lang leads university-wide and interdisciplinary initiatives that integrate pedagogy, technology, and institutional infrastructure to support writing across the university. Her research examines how digital technologies—including AI-enabled feedback systems and writing analytics—can extend human-centered writing pedagogy in undergraduate and graduate education, particularly in STEM and professional fields.
Lang’s work appears in leading journals across writing studies and the sciences, including College Composition and Communication, College English, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication, Writing Program Administration, and Trends in Biochemical Sciences. She has led national workshops for scientific societies, including the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
She previously served as Editor of The Journal of Writing Analytics and is an incoming Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. Prior to joining Ohio State, Lang held senior faculty and administrative roles at Texas Tech University, where she helped lead large-scale writing initiatives and co-developed RaiderWriter, a program-management platform for writing programs.