Susan Rinehart

Susan Rinehart joined Virginia Tech’s Theatre Arts faculty in 1999. Prior to her arrival at VT, she was on the faculty of the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a resident actor at PlayMakers Repertory Company from 1989 to 1999. Susanna teaches more than 500 students every semester and has received numerous teaching awards from the VT Alumni Association, the Office of Residence Life and Student Programs, and the VT PanHellenic Council; was a finalist for the University Sporn Award in 2002 and in 2007; and has taught numerous times for the Faculty Development Institute. She received the Advancing Women Award in 2005. During her award year she served on the VT Faculty Senate and University Council, and has served as President of the Faculty Senate, chair of the Commission on Faculty Affairs, was a founding member of the Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity, a Multicultural Fellow, a CEUT Faculty Associate, and is a trained mediator. She is a two-time recipient of the Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series Grant, and was awarded a SOPAC Faculty Research Grant.