Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine is a scholar of eighteenth-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 at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and currently a visiting scholar in the Mind and Development Lab [http://www.yale.edu/langcoglab/personnel.htm#affiliates] of the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Her forthcoming books include "Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies", "Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830" [http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/major_works/acting_theory_and_the_english_stage_1700_1830] , 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

*"Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England". 2005 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0814209955/] Foundling Hospital

*"Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel". 2006 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/081425151X]

*"Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative". 2008 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801887070]

*"Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson". Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0873529235]

*"Philanthropy and Fiction, 1698-1818". 2006 [http://www.pickeringchatto.com/index.php/pc_site/major_works/narratives_of_the_poor_in_eighteenth_century_britain]

*"Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries". 1999 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0815328958]

Selected articles

*“Theory of Mind and Fictions of Embodied Transparency” (2008) "Narrative" [http://www.uky.edu/AS/English/faculty/ZunshineNar161.pdf]
*“Theory of Mind and Michael Fried’s "Absorption and Theatricality": Notes Toward Cognitive Historicism" (forthcoming) In "Toward a Theory of Narrative Acts". Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama
*“Why Jane Austen Was Different, And Why We May Need Cognitive Science to See It” (2007) "Style"
*“Caught Unawares by a Benefactor: Embodying the Deserving Object of Charity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel” (2006) "The Eighteenth-Century Novel" [http://www.amspressinc.com/ecn.html]
*“Essentialism and Comedy: A Cognitive Reading of the Motif of Mislaid Identity in Dryden’s "Amphitryon" (1690)” (2006) In "Performance and Cognition: Theatre in the Age of New Cognitive Studies". Eds. Bruce McConachie and F. Elizabeth Hart [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415763843]
*“The Spectral Hospital: Philanthropy and the Eighteenth-Century Novel” [http://ecl.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/29/1/1] (2005) "Eighteenth-Century Life"
*“Bastard Daughters and Foundling Heroines: Rewriting Illegitimacy for the Eighteenth-Century Stage” [http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.uky.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v029/29.1zunshine.pdf] (2005) "Modern Philology"
*“Richardson’s "Clarissa" and a Theory of Mind” (2004) In "The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity". Eds. Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0754638499]
*“Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional Consciousness” [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/narrative/v011/11.3zunshine.html] [http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.uky.edu/journals/narrative/v011/11.3zunshine.pdf] (2003) "Narrative"
*“The Gender Dynamics of the Infanticide Prevention Campaign in Eighteenth-Century England and Richardson’s "History of Sir Charles Grandison"” (2003) In "Writing English Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859". Ed. Jennifer Thorn [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0874138191]
*“Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the ‘Truth’ of Fictional Narrative” (2001) "Philosophy and Literature"
*“Rhetoric, Cognition, and Ideology in Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s 1781 "Hymns in Prose for Children"” [http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.uky.edu/journals/poetics_today/v023/23.1zunshine.pdf] (2001) "Poetics Today"
*“The Politics of Eschatological Prophesy and Dryden’s 1700 'The Secular Masque'” (2000) "The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation"

External links

* [http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=2254 Two Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows]


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