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 was born in Russia, came to the United States as a refugee when she was twenty-one, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. She is Bush-Holbrook professor of English[1] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author and editor of twelve books, most recently, 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).