Lisa Zunshine
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Lisa Zunshine is a scholar of eighteenth-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 is a Bush-Holbrook professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and currently a visiting scholar in the Mind and Development Lab [1] of the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Her forthcoming books include Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies, Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 [2], and, co-edited with Jayne Lewis, Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. She has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
[edit] Books
- Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005 [3] Foundling Hospital
- Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006 [4]
- Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008 [5]
- Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006 [6]
- Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818. 2006 [7]
- Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999 [8]
[edit] Selected articles
- “Theory of Mind and Fictions of Embodied Transparency” (2008) Narrative [9]
- “Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality: Notes Toward Cognitive Historicism" (forthcoming) In Toward a Theory of Narrative Acts. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama
- “Why Jane Austen Was Different, And Why We May Need Cognitive Science to See It” (2007) Style
- “Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel” (2006) The Eighteenth-Century Novel [10]
- “Essentialism and Comedy: A Cognitive Reading of the Motif of Mislaid Identity in Dryden’s Amphitryon (1690)” (2006) In Performance and Cognition: Theatre in the Age of New Cognitive Studies. Eds. Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart [11]
- “The Spectral Hospital: Philanthropy and the Eighteenth-Century Novel” [12] (2005) Eighteenth-Century Life
- “Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy for the Eighteenth-Century Stage” [13] (2005) Modern Philology
- “Richardson’s Clarissa and a Theory of Mind” (2004) In The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Eds. Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky [14]
- “Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness” [15] [16] (2003) Narrative
- “The Gender Dynamics of the Infanticide Prevention Campaign in Eighteenth-Century England and Richardson’s History of Sir Charles Grandison” (2003) In Writing English Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859. Ed. Jennifer Thorn [17]
- “Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the ‘Truth’ of Fictional Narrative” (2001) Philosophy and Literature
- “Rhetoric, Cognition, and Ideology in Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s 1781 Hymns in Prose for Children” [18] (2001) Poetics Today
- “The Politics of Eschatological Prophesy and Dryden’s 1700 'The Secular Masque'” (2000) The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
