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]
• 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]
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006^[8]
• 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]

References

1. "zunshin | English". As.uky.edu. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
2. "Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture (9781421406169): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
3. "The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (978-0199978069): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
4. "Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (1603291261): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
5. "Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (9780801894886): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
6. "Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830, V.1-5 (9781851969012): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
7. "Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (9780801887079): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
8. "Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) (9780814251515): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
9. "Samuel Richardson (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) (9780873529235): Lisa Zunshine, Jocelyn Harris: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
10. "BASTARDS FOUNDLINGS: ILLEGITIMACY IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND (9780814209950): LISA ZUNSHINE: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
11. "Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries (Border Crossings) (9780815328957): Lisa Zunshine: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-05-19.

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