- Source: Lisa Zunshine
Lisa Zunshine is an American literary scholar, who publishes in British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive literary theory. She came to the United States as a refugee, from Latvia, when she was twenty-one, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. She is professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author or editor of thirteen books, including Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012),The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (Oxford UP, 2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (MIT Press, 2022).
Books
Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism: Narrative Analysis for Social Change, with Simone Drake, Jim Phelan, and Robyn Warhol. 2024
The Secret Life of Literature. 2022(pdf) (MIT Press Open Access)
Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. 2012 (pdf)
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. 2015
Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Co-edited with Jayne Lewis. 2013
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. 2010
Acting Theory and the English Stage. 2008
Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008 (pdf)
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006 (pdf)
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006
Philanthropy and Fiction. 2006
Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005 (pdf)
Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999
References
External links
Two Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows
"Why Fiction Does it Better" The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" Huffington Post
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