Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine
Born (1968-08-24) August 24, 1968 (age 58)
OccupationsWriter, Literary scholar

Lisa Zunshine (born 24 August 1968) is an American literary scholar, who publishes in British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive literary theory. She is the 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).

Early life and education

Zunshine came to the United States as a refugee, from Latvia, when she was twenty-one, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000.

Career

She is a retired professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and was a Guggenheim fellow in 2007.

Books

References

  1. ↑ "Lisa Zunshine | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences". english.as.uky.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  2. ↑ "zunshin | English". As.uky.edu. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
  3. ↑ "Lisa Zunshine – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…". Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  4. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa (15 March 2022). The Secret Life of Literature (9780262046336): Lisa Zunshine: Books. ISBN 978-0262046336.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (978-0199978069): Lisa Zunshine: Books. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199978069.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa (15 July 2010). Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (9780801894886): Lisa Zunshine: Books. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801894886.
  9. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa (2009). Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830, V.1-5 (9781851969012): Lisa Zunshine: Books. Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 978-1851969012.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa (2006). Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) (9780814251515): Lisa Zunshine: Books. ISBN 081425151X.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa (2005). BASTARDS FOUNDLINGS: ILLEGITIMACY IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND (9780814209950): LISA ZUNSHINE: Books. ISBN 0814209955.
  14. ↑ Zunshine, Lisa; Zunshine (1999). Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries (Border Crossings) (9780815328957): Lisa Zunshine: Books. ISBN 0815328958.