Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at the Dept. of English and German Studies of Zaragoza University. She is the former President of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) and the former Spanish Board member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). She was granted the title of Honorary Research Fellow at Birkberck College (Univ. of London) in 1996. She is the head of a competitive research team of 14 members (http://cne.literatureresearch.net/) currently working on a five-year Consolider project on “Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction in English”. She is also the Coordinator of an official Master in “Textual and Cultural Studies in English” and a Doctoral Programme on “English Studies” distinguished with the Quality Mention of the Ministry of Education and Science (MC22007-00170), both devised according to European Convergence norms.

Susana Onega has published numerous articles and book chapters on literature and narrative theory and is the author of Análisis estructural, método narrativo y “sentido” de The Sound and the Fury de William Faulkner (Libros Pórtico: Zaragoza, 1980); of Form and Meaning in the Novels of John Fowles (Ann Arbor & London: U.M.I. Research Press, 1989) (winner of the Enrique García Díez Research Award); of Peter Ackroyd. The Writer and his Work (Plymouth: Northcote House and The British Council, 1998); of Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd (Camden House: Columbia, 1999); and of Jeanette Winterson. Contemporary British Writers Series (Manchester: Manchester University Press). She is the editor of Estudios literarios ingleses II: Renacimiento y barroco (Cátedra: Madrid, 1986); of "Telling Histories": Narrativizing History/ Historicizing Literature (Rodopi: Amsterdam & Atlanta, 1995; 2nd ed. 2005). She has edited and translated into Spanish John Fowles’ The Collector (Cátedra: Madrid, 1999). She has co-edited, with José Angel García Landa, Narratology: An Introduction (Longman: London & New York, 1996); with John A Stotesbury, London in Literature: Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis (Carl Winter: Heidelberg, 2001); with Christian Gutleben, Refracting the Canon in Contemporary Literature and Film (2004); with Annette Gomis, George Orwell: A Centenary Celebration (Carl Winter: Heidelberg, 2005), and with Jean-Michel Ganteau, The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960’s (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). She has also guest edited a section entitled “John Fowles in Focus” in Anglistik 13, 1 (2002: 45-110); a section on “Intertextuality” in Symbolism An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics 5 (Spring 2005); and authored “Part III: “Literary Theory: Movements and Schools. Structuralism and Narrative Poetics”, in Patricia Waugh (ed.), Literary Theory and Criticism. An Oxford Guide (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2005: 259-79).