Susan Mooney

Susan Mooney
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate of Comparative Literature
On Sabbatical Fall 2009

Contact

Office: CPR 301N
Phone: 813/974-9504
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Bio

Susan Mooney received her Ph.D., Comparative Literature, from the University of Toronto in 2001. Her teaching areas include the modern novel, nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary literature, literary theory, and film. Her research areas are interdisciplinary: censorship and sexuality in the modern novel; ethics and masculinity; history of the book and oral literary history. Her main language areas are English, Spanish, French, and Russian. In 2007, she received USF's Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.  In terms of theses and dissertations, she has supervised studies involving modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, narrative theory, Latino/a and Hispanic literature, African-American literature, gender and sexuality, and authors such as Joyce, Nabokov, Beckett, Wilde, Hurston, Coetzee, Allende, and McCarthy.

She is the author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2008).
For more about this book, see:
http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?books/book%20pages/mooney%20artistic.html

Dr. Mooney is currently completing a study entitled Dialogues on Censorship: Explorations with Writers in Spain [Diálogos sobre la censura: Exploraciones con escritores en España]. Her project presents a discursive method for a history of the book with a focus on censorship of the novel in Franco's Spain.

She is also writing a monograph investigating the relationship between masculinity in crisis and ethics in the modern novel.

She has published and presented conference papers on authors such as Joyce, Nabokov, Martín-Santos, Goytisolo, Marsé, Beckett, Góngora, Pushkin, Erofeev, Mary Shelley, Balzac, and others, and on topics ranging from narrative theory, literary genres including the Bildungsroman, psychoanalysis, and semiotics to print culture, censorship, emotions, and gender relations and theories.

For information regarding the Graduate Certificate of Comparative Literary Studies,
see: http://www.outreach.usf.edu/gradcerts/certinfo.asp?ccode=XCL
Current USF graduate students in English who wish to apply should also consult http://english.usf.edu/graduate/clcert/.
Contact Dr. Mooney with any questions or for advising.

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto (2001)

Specialty Area

Comparative Literature; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Hispanic, British, French, Russian, and American Literatures;Theory; Beckett; Goytisolo; Joyce; Nabokov; Film

Current Courses