Susan Muchshima Moynihan received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University.  She completed her doctoral research on Asian American women’s life writing as a Visiting Scholar in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She has been a faculty member at Bowling Green State University and the University at Buffalo and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Tennessee Tech University, teaching American literature and writing with a focus on comparative ethnic and transnational literatures and theories of trauma and affect.