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 is a Bush-Holbrook professor of English^[1] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. In 2007-2008 she was a visiting scholar in the Mind and Development Lab^[2] of the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Books

• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. 2012^[3]
• The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. 2015^[4]
• Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Co-edited with Jayne Lewis. 2013^[5]
• Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. 2010^[6]
• Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830. 2008^[7]
• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008^[8]
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006^[9]
• Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006^[10]
• Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818. 2006
• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005^[11] Foundling Hospital
• Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999^[12]

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
• Homepage