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PATRICK COLM HOGAN is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
at the University of Connecticut (USA), where he is affiliated with the
English Department, the Cognitive Science Program, the Program in
Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, and the Connecticut In-
stitute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He is the author of over
twenty books, most recently Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary
Study (Oxford UP, 2018) and Literature and Emotion (Routledge, 2018).

SIRI HUSTVEDT is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of
essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the interna-
tional bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most
recent novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker
Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was
awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humani-
ties. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lec-
turer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her
work has been translated into over thirty languages.

DANIEL T. LOCHMAN is professor and chair of the Department of English
at Texas State University, where he studies early modern culture and
literature and the history of distributed cognition. Recent publications
include a study of affect in friendship in a co-edited collection, Dis-
courses and Representation of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
(2011) and an edited text, John Colet on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy of
Dionysius (2013). Current interest focuses on early modern forms of
narrative experience and their analysis in relation to cognitive studies.

ELLEN SPOLSKY is Professor Emerita, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is
a literary theorist whose work explores the uses of cognitive theories
as ways of understanding literary and cultural history. Her books in-
clude Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular
Mind (1993), Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Mod-
ern World (2001), Word vs Image: Cognitive Hunger in Shakespeare’s Eng-
land (2007), and most recently, The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Cul-
ture, Community (2015).

HANNAH CHAPELLE WOJCIEHOWSKI is the Arthur J. Thaman and Wil-
helmina Doré Thaman Professor of English at the University of Texas
at Austin. Wojciehowski is the author of Group Identity in the Renais-
sance World (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and has recently ed-

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