Lisa Zunshine
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.
[edit] 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]
