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Modern and Contemporary English Literature; narrative theory, ethics and trauma in English narrative
Spain

Biography

Susana Onega is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Department of English and German Studies of Zaragoza University. She was granted the Miguel Servet Award for Research Excellence by the Government of Aragón in 2021, and the title of Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College (Univ. of London) in 1996. She is a coopted member of the Academia Europaea (AE) since 2008, the former President of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), the former Spanish Board member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), and the former Head of a competitive research team working on Contemporary Narratives in English.

Activities

Employment (1)

Universidad de Zaragoza: Zaragoza, Aragón, ES

Researcher (Academic) (Filología Inglesa y Alemana)
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Universidad de Zaragoza

Education and qualifications (2)

Susana Onega Jaén: Zaragoza, Aragón, ES

2019-10-01 to present | Catedrática Emérita (Filología Inglesa y Alemana)
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Universidad de Zaragoza: Zaragoza, Aragón, ES

1986-06-05 to 2019-09-15 | Catedratica de Filología Inglesa (Filología Inglesa y Alemana)
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Professional activities (5)

Academia Europaea: London, London, GB

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Government of Aragón: Zaragoza, Aragón, ES

2021-11-09 | Miguel Servet Award for Research Excellence
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Academia Europaea: London, London, GB

2015-01-01 to 2021-01-01 | elected member of the Section Committee ( Literary and Theatrical Studies )
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Academia Europaea: London, London, GB

2008-04-05 to 2021-01-01 | Coopted member (Literary and Theatrical Studies)
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Birkbeck University of London: London, London, GB

1995 | Honorary Research Fellowship (Humanities)
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Works (44)

Introduction

2024-07-30 | Book chapter
Contributors: Jean-Michel Ganteau; Susana Onega
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The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative

2024-07-30 | Book
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“The Thing Was to Make Yourself Invisible, She Said”

2024-07-30 | Book chapter
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Of Sexbots, Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligence: Articulations of the Posthuman Subject in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story

Pólemos
2023-04-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Susana Onega
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Mapping Contemporary Hell

2022-11-30 | Book chapter
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Imagining the Blitz and Its Aftermath: The Narrative Performance of Trauma in Sarah Waters&rsquo;s <i>The Night Watch</i>

Humanities
2022-04 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Susana Onega
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The Social Importance of How Bodies Inhabit Spaces with Others: A Queer Reading of Sarah Waters’s The Paying Guests

The European Legacy
2021-05-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Susana Onega
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Transcending the postmodern: the singular response of literature to the transmodern paradigm

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Universidad de Zaragoza

Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature

Orbis Litterarum
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature

Anglia
2018 | Journal article
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Learning to Love The Paradoxical Life Quests of the Male Protagonists in Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time

Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: a Paradoxical Quest
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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THE WOUNDED HERO IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION A PARADOXICAL QUEST Introduction

Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: a Paradoxical Quest
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Ganteau, Jean-Michel; Onega, Susana
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The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest

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Universidad de Zaragoza
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Thinking English Literature and Criticism under the Transmodern Paradigm

Countertext-a Journal for the Study of the Post-literary
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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Traumatic memory and the ethical, political and transhistorical functions of literature

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Universidad de Zaragoza
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Victimhood and vulnerability in 21st century fiction

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Universidad de Zaragoza

Contemporary trauma narratives: liminality and the ethics of form

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Universidad de Zaragoza

The Making of London: London in Contemporary Literature

European Legacy
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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The Notion of Paradigm Shift and the Roles of Science and Literature in the Interpretation of Reality

European Review
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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Trauma and romance in contemporary British literature

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Universidad de Zaragoza

Affective Knowledge, Self-awareness and the Function of Myth in the Representation and Transmission of Trauma

Journal of Literary Theory
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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Ethics and trauma in contemporary British fiction

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Universidad de Zaragoza

WRITING THE EVENT AND THE ETHICS OF LOVE IN J. M. COETZEE'S AGE OF IRON

Anglia
2011 | Journal article
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Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction INTRODUCTION

RESTORING THE MYSTERY OF THE RAINBOW: LITERATURE'S REFRACTION OF SCIENCE, VOLS 1 AND 2
2009 | Journal article
Contributors: Ganteau, Jean-Michel; Onega, Susana
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THE TRAUMA PARADIGM AND THE ETHICS OF AFFECT IN JEANETTE WINTERSON'S THE STONE GODS

RESTORING THE MYSTERY OF THE RAINBOW: LITERATURE'S REFRACTION OF SCIENCE, VOLS 1 AND 2
2009 | Journal article
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The Nightmare of History, the Value of Art and the Ethics of Love in Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Telling Stories: Literature and Evolution
2008 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, Susana
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The ethical component in experimental British fiction since the 1960s

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Jeanette Winterson

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Universidad de Zaragoza

George Orwell: a centenary celebration

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Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film

2004 | Book
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London in literature: visionary mappings of the metropolis

2002 | Book
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El coleccionista

1999 | Book
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Metafiction and myth in the novels of Peter Ackroyd

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Peter Ackroyd

1998 | Book
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Universidad de Zaragoza

Interview with Peter Ackroyd

Twentieth Century Literature
1996 | Journal article
Contributors: Onega, S; Ackroyd, P
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Narratology: an introduction

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Universidad de Zaragoza

SELF, WORLD, AND ART IN THE FICTION OF FOWLES,JOHN

Twentieth Century Literature
1996 | Journal article
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Telling history: Narrativizing history, historicizing literature

1995 | Book
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Universidad de Zaragoza

Ceremonial para la investidura como doctor "Honoris Causa" por la Universidad de Zaragoza de los profesores J. Hillis Miller, Jacob L. Mey, Konrad Messmer: 8 de Noviembre de 1993

1993 | Book
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Form and meaning in the novels of John Fowles

1989 | Book
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Estudios literarios ingleses

1986 | Book
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Universidad de Zaragoza

Personajes aragoneses en Shakespeare

1980 | Book
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Universidad de Zaragoza

Análisis estructural, método narrativo y sentido de "The sound and the fury" de William Faulkner

1979 | Book
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Tipos y tópicos españoles en la literatura inglesa de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI

1978 | Book
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Peer review (12 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for Humanities. (9)
Review activity for Orbis litterarum. (2)
Review activity for Religions. (1)