Prof. Dr. Susana Onega

Susana Onega is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Dept. of English and German Philology of Zaragoza University, and a member of the Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability. 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 became a coopted member of the Academia Europaea in 2008. Onega has written monographs on John Fowles (1989); Peter Ackroyd (1998, 1999); and Jeanette Winterson (2006), And has edited or co-edited, among others, “Telling Histories”: Narrativizing History: Historicizing Literature (1995), Narratology: An Introduction (1996), The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960s (2007), Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary Narrative in English (2011), Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Fiction (2013); Liminality and The Ethics of Form in Contemporary Trauma Narratives (2014), Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature (2017); Victimhood and Vulnerability in Twenty-first Century Fiction (2017), The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest (Routledge 2018), and Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm (2020).