Susan teaches classes in film and television history and culture, including "Media and Presidential Elections," and "Walt Disney." She is the author of George Gallup in Hollywood (Columbia University Press, 2006) and is completing a book on the history of the Disney studio. Her research focuses on the industrial and organizational aspects of media companies and has appeared in journals including "Film History" and the "Quarterly Review of Film and Video" and in the anthologies "Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood" and "American Cinema of the 1930s". As an administrator, she has served as a Provost's Fellow (2007-2009), as Assistant Provost (2009-2010), an Interim Director of the Hesburgh Libraries (2010-2011) and from 2011-2013 led Digital ND, a campus-wide initiative to streamline and strengthen digital work at Notre Dame.