Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine (born 24 August 1968)[1] 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[2] 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[3](pdf) (MIT Press Open Access)
• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. 2012[4] (pdf)
• The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. 2015[5]
• Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Co-edited with Jayne Lewis. 2013[6]
• Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. 2010[7]
• Acting Theory and the English Stage. 2008[8]
• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. 2008[9] (pdf)
• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. 2006[10] (pdf)
• Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Co-edited with Jocelyn Harris. 2006[11]
• Philanthropy and Fiction. 2006
• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England. 2005[12] (pdf)
• Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries. 1999[13]

References

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

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