Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine is an American scholar of literature and cognitive science, who publishes in eighteenth-century British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive psychology. 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 at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author or editor of twelve 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

 * The Secret Life of Literature. 2022 (pdf) (MIT Press Open Access)
 * Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. 2012 (pdf)
 * The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. 2015
 * Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Co-edited with Jayne Lewis. 2013
 * Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. 2010
 * Acting Theory and the English Stage. 2008
 * Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008 (pdf)
 * Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006 (pdf)
 * Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006
 * Philanthropy and Fiction. 2006
 * Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005  (pdf)
 * Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999