Lisa Zunshine is an American scholar of literature and cognitive science, who publishes in eighteenth-century British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive psychology. 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 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 ,The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies, and The Secret Life of Literature.
