"Literature, Cognition, Emotions, and Embodiment" Roundtable Discussion
MAR 01, 2013 | 4:30 PM TO 5:30 PM
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
1201: Elebash Recital Hall
March 01, 2013: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Roundtable discussion featuring English Program faculty Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Glenn Burger, Anne Humpherys, and Nancy Yousef in discussion about the "mind-body" problem in terms of recent theoretical questions in their field, in their work, or in work by graduate students. Issues discussed may consider the relationship between literature or literary studies and cognition, affect, emotions, embodiment, neuroscience, trauma, phenomenology, and the body.