Biographical Note for Lisa Zunshine

Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, where she teaches courses in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006), Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (2008), and Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (2010). In 2007-2008, supported by a Guggenheim fellowship, she was a visiting scholar at the department of psychology at Yale University.