Lisa Zunshine - Biography

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 is a Bush-Holbrook professor of English [1] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. In 2007-2008 she was a visiting scholar in the Mind and Development Lab [2] of the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Her forthcoming books include Getting Inside Your Head: Culture and the Theory of Mind and, co-edited with Jayne Lewis, Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. She has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Books

• Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. 2010 [3]

• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005 [4] Foundling Hospital

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006 [5]

• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008 [6]

• Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830. 2008 [7]

• Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006 [8]

• Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818. 2006 [9]

• Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999 [10]

External links

• Two Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows
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