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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).

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  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.