Faculty

Susan Muchshima Moynihan

Assistant Professor
Office: Clemens 515
Phone number: 716-645-2575, ext. 1054
E-mail address: sm246@buffalo.edu

 

Interests:

  • Asian American Literature & Culture
  • Autobiography Studies
  • American Studies

Courses taught:

  • Graduate Courses: Asian American Women’s Autobiography, Asian American Sexualities: Literature & Theory, Americanist Colloquium
  • Undergraduate Courses: Asian American Authors, Visions of America: Asian Immigrant Narrative, Biography and Autobiography:, Asian American Texts, American Women Writers, American Pluralism

Work in progress:

  • Book manuscript on Asian American life writing
  • “Embodying the History of the Cultural Revolution” (under review)
  • “Subjects of Compassion: Trauma and the Politics of Refugee Subjectivity” (under review)

Selected publications:

  • Review of Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by Filipinas. Ed. Marianne Villanueva and Virginia Cerenio. MELUS (Special Issue on Filipino American Literature). Guest Editor: Rocio G. Davis. 29.1 (2004): 294-96.
  • Review of Identities in Motion: Asian Americans in Film and Video. By Peter Feng. Journal of Asian American Studies (forthcoming 2006).
  • “Cynthia Kadohata’s The Floating World.” Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Abby H. P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, Inc., (forthcoming 2006).

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)