3/22 Speaker on Fiction and Cognition

Elaine Auyoung, U Minnesota will give a talk on innovative interdisciplinary approches to fictionality, representation, cognition and theory of mind on March 22.

 

Literatures, Cultures and Languages, UCHI and the English Department are inviting a brilliant young scholar to speak:  Elaine Auyoung, a Harvard Ph.D. now working at U Minnesota.  Elaine does groundbreaking work on fiction and cognition.  Her affiliations at U Minnesota are with the Center for Cognitive Science and the English Department.  Her forthcoming book with Oxford UP is called When Fiction Feels Real: Representational Technique and the Reading Mind. She has also published in numerous other impressive venues. Her CV and link to her profile are included here.

Elaine will give a talk about innovative interdisciplinary approches to fictionality, representation, cognition and theory of mind.  The talk will be from 2:00-3:15 pm on Thursday, March 22nd (venue to be determined).  We are planning on having a special lunch for graduate students from 11:30-1:00 pm.

 

For more information please contact:

 

Jennifer Terni, Ph.D.

Associate Head, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages

Associate Professor of French

University of Connecticut

Oak Hall East SSHB Room 207

365 Fairfield Way U-1057

Storrs, CT 06269

Phone: (860) 486-3313

Fax: (860) 486-4392

http://languages.uconn.edu