Susan Srigley
Susan Srigley is a Professor in the department of Religions and Cultures at Nipissing University (North Bay, Ontario, Canada). Her research focuses on ethics, imagination, and literature. She has published two books and several articles on Flannery O’Connor; has been invited to give talks in Europe and the U.S.; has organized four international Flannery O’Connor conferences; and has served on the editorial board for Studies in the Catholic Imagination since 2018.
Susan’s teaching in death studies has been building over the past 15 years in response to growing student interest. She has presented her pedagogy on death awareness for postsecondary students at the Garrison Institute, NY, for the Contemplative Care Symposium, and she has presented at the international death festival, Lifting the Lid, for the past three years. She has been interviewed on several podcasts about her death teaching (see this example), and recently published an article on death studies for university students in the Conversation. She has been a palliative care volunteer for the past 22 years, and she is a trained death doula/end of life companion. Her Instagram account @death.ambassadors details her adventures in death education and raising death awareness.