Lisa Zunshine
Literary historian
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Lisa Zunshine's Degrees
- PhD English Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Masters English Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English Literature University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lisa Zunshine is an American scholar of literature and cognitive science, who publishes in eighteenth-century British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive psychology. 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 ; and author or editor of twelve books, including Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture ,The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies , and The Secret Life of Literature .
Lisa Zunshine's Published Works
Published Works
- Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006) (650)
- Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (2010) (114)
- The Oxford handbook of cognitive literary studies (2015) (82)
- Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness (2003) (81)
- Theory of Mind and Fictions of Embodied Transparency (2008) (43)
- Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (2008) (42)
- Why Jane Austen Was Different, and Why We May Need Cognitive Science to See It (2007) (31)
- Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (2012) (25)
- The Critic as Neurocosmopolite; Or, What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies: Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese (2014) (22)
- What to Expect When You Pick up a Graphic Novel (2011) (19)
- Theory of Mind and embedding of perspective: A psychological test of a literary "sweet spot" (2012) (18)
- Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England (2005) (18)
- Rhetoric, Cognition, and Ideology in A. L. Barbauld's Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) (2002) (15)
- Style Brings in Mental States! (2011) (14)
- Theory of Mind as a Pedagogical Tool (2014) (12)
- Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the "Truth" of Fictional Narrative (2001) (12)
- Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies (2015) (11)
- Style Brings in Mental States1 (2011) (11)
- What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children's Literature, History (2019) (11)
- The Secret Life of Fiction (2015) (10)
- Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries (1999) (8)
- Fiction and Theory of Mind: An Exchange (2007) (7)
- “From the "From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective" (2015) (7)
- The Commotion of Souls (2016) (6)
- Increases in Perspective Embedding Increase Reading Time Even with Typical Text Presentation: Implications for the Reading of Literature (2015) (5)
- Bakhtin, Theory of Mind, and Pedagogy: Cognitive Construction of Social Class (2017) (5)
- Bastards and Foundlings (2005) (4)
- Validating judgments of perspective embedding: Further explorations of a new tool for literary analysis (2016) (4)
- The Spectral Hospital: Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy and the Novel (2005) (4)
- Approaches to teaching the novels of Samuel Richardson (2006) (4)
- What Reading Fiction Has to Do with Doing Well Academically (2014) (3)
- Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy for the Eighteenth‐Century Stage (2005) (2)
- Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2008) (2)
- Embodied Social Cognition and Comparative Literature (2020) (2)
- Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 (2008) (2)
- The Secret Life of Literature (2022) (2)
- Mind Plus: Sociocognitive Pleasures of Jane Austen's Novels (2009) (1)
- Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority (2012) (1)
- Mindreading and Social Status (2020) (1)
- Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (2016) (1)
- How Memories Become Literature (2022) (0)
- The Politics of Eschatological Prophecy and Dryden's 1700 the Secular Masque (2000) (0)
- On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction (2023) (0)
- Life Writing and Cognition (2022) (0)
- Roger Pickering, Refl ections Upon Th eatrical Expression in Tragedy (2017) (0)
- Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 4 (2008) (0)
- Why Robots Go Astray (2008) (0)
- May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies (2020) (0)
- Books Received (1981) (0)
- The first conference to be hosted on the MLA Commons platform (2016) (0)
- Babylon Berlin: Bargaining with Shadows (2022) (0)
- Philanthropy and fiction, 1698-1818 (2006) (0)
- theories and methodologies The Secret Life of (2015) (0)
- Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory (2018) (0)
- Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 3 (2008) (0)
- 8. Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality: Notes toward Cognitive Historicism (2010) (0)
- Culture of Greedy Mind Readers (2012) (0)
- Chapter 3 Not afraid of Virginia Woolf : embedding and polyphony in the novel (2016) (0)
- Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies (2016) (0)
- Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? (2020) (0)
- “'Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself': Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History" (2017) (0)
- BASTARDS FOUNDLINGS: ILLEGITIMACY IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND (2005) (0)
- Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 2 (2008) (0)
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