Lisa Zunshine Explained

Lisa Zunshine is an American literary scholar, who publishes in British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive literary theory. 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^[1] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author or editor of thirteen books, including Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012),The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (Oxford UP, 2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (MIT Press, 2022).

Books

• Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism: Narrative Analysis for Social Change, with Simone Drake, Jim Phelan, and Robyn Warhol. 2024
• The Secret Life of Literature. 2022^[2] (pdf) (MIT Press Open Access)
• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. 2012^[3] (pdf)
• 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. 2008^[7]
• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008^[8] (pdf)
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006^[9] (pdf)
• Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006^[10]
• Philanthropy and Fiction. 2006
• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005^[11] (pdf)
• Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999^[12]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: zunshin | English . As.uky.edu . 2012-05-19.
2. Book: The Secret Life of Literature (9780262046336): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 15 March 2022. 978-0262046336 . Zunshine . Lisa .
3. Book: Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture (9781421406169): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 3 September 2012. 978-1421406169 . Zunshine . Lisa . JHU Press.
4. Book: The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (978-0199978069): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 978-0199978069 . Zunshine . Lisa . 2015 . Oxford University Press .
5. Book: Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (1603291261): Lisa Zunshine: Books . January 2013. 978-1603291262 . Lewis . Jayne . Zunshine . Lisa . Modern Language Association of America.
6. Book: Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (9780801894886): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 15 July 2010. 978-0801894886 . Zunshine . Lisa . Johns Hopkins University Press.
7. Book: Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830, V.1-5 (9781851969012): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 978-1851969012 . Zunshine . Lisa . 2009 . Pickering & Chatto .
8. Book: Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (9780801887079): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 28 July 2008. 978-0801887079 . Zunshine . Lisa . Johns Hopkins University Press.
9. Book: Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) (9780814251515): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 081425151X . Zunshine . Lisa . 2006 .
10. Book: Samuel Richardson (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) (9780873529235): Lisa Zunshine, Jocelyn Harris: Books . January 2006. 0873529235 . Zunshine. Lisa. Harris. Jocelyn. Modern Language Association of America.
11. Book: BASTARDS FOUNDLINGS: ILLEGITIMACY IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND (9780814209950): LISA ZUNSHINE: Books . 0814209955 . Zunshine . Lisa . 2005 .
12. Book: Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries (Border Crossings) (9780815328957): Lisa Zunshine: Books . 0815328958 . Zunshine . Lisa . Zunshine . 1999 .