Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

Susana Onega

is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza. She has written on the work of contemporary writers, narrative theory, and  ethics and trauma; and is the author of five monographs, including
Form and Meaning in the Novels of John Fowles
(1989, Winner of the Enrique García Díez Research Award),
Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd
(1999), and
Jeanette Winterson
(2006, Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English Book Award, 2008).

Constanza del Río is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Literature at the University of Zaragoza. Her research centers on contemporary Irish fiction, narrative and critical theory, and popular narrative genres. She is co-editor of 
Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film 
(2004).

Maite Escudero-Alías is Senior Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza, where she teaches English Literature. Her main research interests centre on contemporary literary criticism, feminism, queer and affect theory in literature, and culture. She is the author of
Long Live the King: A Genealogy of Performative Genders
(2009) and has published in the
Journal of Gender Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Lesbian Studies, The Journal of Transatlantic Studies,
and
Journal of International Women’s Studies,
among others.