Associate Professor
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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About Susan Mooney
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.
| Present | Associate Professor, University of South Florida | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2004 | USF Humanities Institute Summer Research Grant |
| University of South Florida | |
| 2002 - 2003 | Grinnell College Faculty Research Grant |
| Grinnell College | |
| 2000 - 2001 | University of Toronto Thesis Completion Grant |
| University of Toronto | |
| 1998 - 1999 | Alumni Association of University of Toronto Travel Grant |
| University of Toronto |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2004 - Present | Director, Graduate Certificate of Comparative Literature | 2017 - 2019 | Faculty Representative, USF's Title IX Presidential Advisory Committee | 2014 - 2015 | Chair, Graduate Awards Committee, Department of English | 2012 - 2013 | Chair, Student Grievance Committee, Department of English | 2007 - 2008 | Chair, Graduate Recruitment Committee, Department of English | 2006 | Organizer, Samuel Beckett Centenary Symposium |
Honors and Awards
- USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2006-2007
- Research Subvention from Spain: Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities
- Harry W. Hilborn Memorial Prize (Queen's University, 1988)
- Susan Near Prize in Spanish (Queen's University, 1988)
Courses
- Studies in Modern British Literature: Joyce and Beckett, Modernism and Postmodernism (ENL 6276)
- Studies in Modern British Literature (ENL 6276)
- Ulysses and Theories of Narrative (LIT 6934)
- Studies in Criticism and Theory II (ENG 6019)
- Studies in Continental Literature: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Spanish Civil War (LIT 6105)
- Irish Modernism (LIT 6934)
- Modern British Novel (ENL 4132)
- Modern British Literature 1900-1945 (ENL 3273)
- Literary Methodology (ENG 3014)
- Literature of the World since the Renaissance (LIT 3102)
- English Honors, Ulysses: Joyce's Modernist Masterpiece (ENG 4935)
- Modern Spanish Civilization (SPW 4930)
- Film and Culture (ENG 4674)
| 2001 | PhD, University of Toronto | |
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| 1991 | MA, McGill University | |
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| 1988 | BA, Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario | |
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Contact Information
Office: CPR 301-N
Phone: (813) 974-9504
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