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Lisa Zunshine
Professor

Lisa Zunshine is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, a former Guggenheim fellow (2007) and the author or editor of thirteen books, including Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England (2005), Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006), Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson (co-edited with Jocelyn Harris, 2006), Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (2008), Acting Theory and the English Stage (2009),  Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (ed., 2010), Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (co-edited with Jayne Lewis, 2013), Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (2022).

Contact Information
lisa.zunshine@gmail.com
POT 1253
269-6972
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000
Research Interests
  • Cognitive Science and Literary Studies
  • Comparative Literature
  • Eighteenth Century British Literature
Affiliations
  • English