Susan Mooney

Associate Professor

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About

Susan Mooney (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 2001) specializes in Comparative Literature, theories of narrative, gender and sexuality, including LGBTQIA2S+, film theory and semiotics, psychoanalysis, contemporary and twentieth-century literatures and film in English (by Irish, English, American, African American, Canadian, and indigenous writers and filmmakers), Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American), French, and Russian. In The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Ohio UP, 2008), she examines novelists’ transformation of state censorship and psychoanalytic censoring in landmark novels (Joyce’s Ulysses; Nabokov’s Lolita; Martín-Santos’s Tiempo de silencio; and Erofeev’s Russian Beauty [Russkaia krassavitsa]) across Ireland, Great Britain, France, the United States, Spain, and Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. This global comparative study shows how censorship’s preoccupation with sexuality and sexuality’s potential to challenge the political status quo are harnessed by writers to suggest new ethical intersections of the (masculine) individual with social forces. 

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  • Curriculum Vitae

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Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Toronto

… → 2001

MA, McGill University

… → 1991

BA, Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario

… → 1988

Disciplines

  • Comparative Literature
  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature