Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine is a scholar of 18th-century British literature, whose interests include cultural historicism, narrative theory, and cognitive approaches to literary and cultural studies (with a particular emphasis on Theory of mind and fiction). She was born in Russia, came to the United States as a refugee when she was twenty-one, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. She is Bush-Holbrook professor of English^[1] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author and editor of eleven books, most recently, Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (Oxford UP, 2015).

Books[]

• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. 2012^[2] (pdf)
• The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. 2015^[3]
• Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Co-edited with Jayne Lewis. 2013^[4]
• Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. 2010^[5]
• Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830. 2008^[6]
• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008^[7] (pdf)
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006^[8] (pdf)
• Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006^[9]
• Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818. 2006
• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005^[10] Foundling Hospital
• Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999^[11]

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External links[]

• Two Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows
• "Why Fiction Does it Better" The Chronicle of Higher Education
• "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" Huffington Post
• Homepage