Professor Suzanna Geiser teaches Lawyering Process at the William S. Boyd School of Law, bringing a deep interdisciplinary background in law and the humanities to the classroom. Her teaching emphasizes clarity, precision, and the critical thinking skills essential to effective legal communication.

Before joining Boyd Law, Professor Geiser was an Assistant Legal Research and Writing Professor at Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, where she taught courses in advanced legal writing and the law and literature of civil rights. Earlier in her academic career, she served as a Teaching Assistant Professor and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor Geiser earned her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was an editor of the Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice. She practiced corporate and transactional law in the private sector before transitioning to academia. She also holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in English from North Carolina State University. Her broad academic training informs her approach to legal education, not only by supporting students in developing sophisticated writing and analytical skills grounded in legal doctrine, rhetorical awareness, and narrative technique but also by fostering an understanding of law as a deeply human endeavor.