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 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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