Contributors
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Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University and the author or editor of eighteen books, including Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-First Century. He coedits the series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture (University of Texas Press) and edits Latino Pop Culture (Palgrave) as well as Contemporary Latino Authors and Directors (Ohio State University Press).
Cecilia Bolich works as the quality control coordinator in instructional design and technology at Saint Leo University. Her research interests include film and cultural studies, information literacy, and theory of mind. She is cosecretary for the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Kathryn Duncan is a professor of English at Saint Leo University. Her research interests include pirates, Methodists, Jane Austen, and evolutionary psychology. She is treasurer and cosecretary for the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and book review editor for Religion in the Age of Enlightenment.
Nancy Easterlin is research professor of English and professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of New Orleans, where she teaches romanticism, prose fiction, and literary theory. She is the author of A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation and Wordsworth and the Question of ‘Romantic Religion’ as well as numerous articles on cognitive-evolutionary theory and criticism. Easterlin is a former Guggenheim Fellow (2008).
Colin Irvine is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, where he teaches courses [End Page 203] in composition, American literature, and environmental literature. His research often investigates the intersections of narratology and pedagogy, and he is likewise interested in issues pertaining to the American West.
Isabel Jaén is an associate professor of Spanish at Portland State University. Her research focuses on Golden Age Spanish literature and early modern views of the mind. She is coeditor of Cognitive Literary Studies (University of Texas Press, 2012) and has published several articles on Cervantes’s Don Quixote and Renaissance cognitive psychology.
Clinton MaChann is a professor of English at Texas A&M University and author of The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature, Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life, and Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading. He coedited a special issue of Style, “Applied Evolutionary Criticism,” and contributed to The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.
David Michelson received his PhD in English, with a graduate certificate in evolutionary studies, from Binghamton University. His article “Personality and the Varieties of Fictional Experience” is forthcoming in the Journal of Aesthetic Education. He teaches literature and writing at the College of New Jersey and Hudson County Community College.
William Nelles teaches in the English department at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His publications include Frameworks: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative and numerous journal articles and book chapters on narrative theory.
Merja Polvinen is a research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has published on interdisciplinary topics related to literature and the natural sciences, and her current work focuses on cognitive approaches to metafiction. She is a steering-committee member in the network Cognitive Futures in the Humanities.
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama is a research associate in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. She explores the emergence of storytelling in human evolution, the continuities between ancient and modern storytelling, and [End Page 204] the cognitive capacities and ecological conditions behind this unique human behavior.
Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007). She is the author and editor of eleven books, including, most recently, Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture (2012). [End Page 205]
