U of Kentucky
Lexington
Biographical Sketch: Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, a former Guggenheim fellow, and the author or editor of twelve books, including Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Ohio State UP, 2006), Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008), Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (MIT Press, forthcoming). In 2020, she guest-edited a special issue on cognitive approaches to comparative literature (https://read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/issue/41/2). Her essays appeared in PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Narrative, and Poetics Today, and have been translated into Russian, Mandarin, Italian, Portuguese, and Hungarian. Full texts of her publications, on topics ranging from Bakhtinian cognitive poetics, to cognitive disability studies, and cognitive approaches to children’s literature, are here: https://mla.hcommons.org/members/zunshine/