Susan teaches in the Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design, and Architecture Programs. She is a licensed landscape architect in the United States and consults professionally in Canada and the U.S.. Her research concerns the design and history of landscapes. Susan has conducted research in Germany with support from the German Academic Exchange, and in Cambridge as a visiting researcher at Harvard University. She is currently the President of the Landscape Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
In 2011 she received a Graham Foundation grant for her forthcoming book, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape.
Herrington is the author of On Landscapes (Routledge 2009).
Herrington was awarded a UBC Killam Faculty Fellowship in 2010/2011
In 2008 she was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada to write a book on Modern Landscape Architecture and the work of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
From 2003 -2008 Susan led a five year long research program called “Outside Criteria” as part of the CHILD project, which is funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Susan is the author of Schoolyard Park 13-acres international design competition, 2002. She has published chapters in books such as Eating Architecture (Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley, editors) 2004, Contemporary Garden Aesthetics (Michel Conan, editor) 2006, and Festival, Hybrids: Reshaping the Contemporary Garden in Métis (Lesley Johnstone, editor) 2007. She has also written articles for professional magazines such as Architecture-Québec, Landscape Paysages, Landscape Architecture, and the Italian publication COSTRUIRE. Susan has exhibited her work in Québec, New York City, and Berkeley.
In 2001-2 she was a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar.