ABOUT SUSAN D. CORBIN
Since retiring from the University of Texas, Susan has focused on coaching doctoral students and delving into her recently rediscovered passion for writing. Her careers in her employed life range from medical technology to biochemistry research to academic student support (both undergraduate and graduate students). She loves reading, travel and hanging out with friends and family including her husband, two children, and seven grandchildren.
Susan and Sadi
Her publishing endeavors include a self-published book entitled Hallowed Ground, Sacred Space, in which she transcribed and rewrote a Rick Diamond Bible Study about the Lord’s Prayer’s translation from Aramaic to English. Rick Diamond was the pastor of JourneyIFC, a quirky faith community where Susan and her husband John have been members since its founding in 2005.
She won third prize in the May 2019 Story Circle Network writing contest with an essay called Uncertain Heart. The theme was Uncertainty. The essay is from a memoir, tentatively entitled Evie’s Heart, about her ten-months-old granddaughter’s heart transplant in 2017.
Story Circle Network also published her essay The Tale of Two Committees in their 2019 Real Women Write anthology themed Growing / Older. The essay is a chapter in Dear Dissertation Writer: Stories, Strategies, and Self-Care Tips to Get Done.
In October of 2021, a book chapter, Coaching Lessons, was published in the currently available Greater Austin ICF chapter’s 25th anniversary book, Explorations into the Doing and Being of Coaching.
The Susan D. Corbin Fellowship
at The University of Texas at Austin, Moody College of Communication
After more than 20 years with the Department of Communication Studies in various capacities from graduate student to Graduate Coordinator, Susan Corbin retired in May 2013. For 10 years, she was the voice of the department’s graduate program to prospective students, the hand of welcome to the incoming graduate students, the shoulder to lean on for current students, and the hug of promise to graduating students.
In retiring, she wanted to continue to help graduate students even after she left. A Communication Studies Graduate Fellowship is a fitting legacy. The fellowship monies are used primarily for in-state tuition waivers. Following that, the monies from the fellowship are for graduate student research and graduate student travel expenses for conferences and/or research.