Cognitive Film and Media Theory at MLA

Some of you may be interested in the below message about panels on cognitive approaches to film and literature at MLA in Chicago. Members of SCSMI will be presenting.

From: “Simon, Julien J” <jjsimon@iue.edu>
Subject: RE: [CogLAs] Div. Cog Approaches to Lit: Papers Available Online — 2014 MLA Chicago
Date: December 8, 2013 6:02:14 PM EST
To: lisa zunshine <lisa.zunshine@gmail.com>

Dear all,

Please see below the program of the two sessions organized by the Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature at the 2014 MLA in Chicago.

This year in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas between presenters and members, the papers are available online (on the Division’s MLA Commons blog: http://cognitiveapproachestoliterature.commons.mla.org/) and you’ll be able to comment on them prior to the sessions. Let me know if you have any questions.

The presenters and I look forward to your input.

Best regards,
Julien J. Simon, Chair
jjsimon@iue.edu

PS: The papers are open access. If you are logged in to MLA Commons, your name will appear automatically in the comment area (on the right). If you’re not logged in, you still have the ability to comment. To activate your MLA Commons account, please visit: http://commons.mla.org/ [NB:MLA Commons is the new system for divisions and discussion groups to communicate with their members.]

22. Cognitive Approaches to Film

Thursday, 9 January, 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Chicago X, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature

Presiding: Julien Jacques Simon, Indiana Univ. East

1. “Seeing Is Not Believing: How Cognitive Science Can Redeem Popular Film,” Jennifer M. William, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

2. “Journeys of Imagination: Embodied Metaphors of Cinematic Absorption,” Jake Ivan Dole, Georgia State Univ.

3. “Exposition in Narrative Cinema,” Jason Gendler, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

4. “Traversing Narrative Space in Hollywood Films,” James E. Cutting, Cornell Univ.

For papers, visit cognitiveapproachestoliterature.commons.mla.org/

584. Cognitive Historicist Approaches to Literature

Saturday, 11 January, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Sheraton I, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature

Presiding: Julien Jacques Simon, Indiana Univ. East

1. “The Janus Hypothesis in Don Quixote: Memory and Imagination in Cervantes,” Julia Dominguez-Castellano, Iowa State Univ.

2. “Shakespeare and the Science of Imagination,” Suparna Roychoudhury, Mount Holyoke Coll.

3. “Empathy and the Experience of Foreign Consciousness in Literary Modernism,” Meghan Marie Hammond, New York Univ.

4. “The Subterranean World of Memory: Mira Bartók’s Struggle for Articulation in The Memory Palace,” Genie Giaimo, Northeastern Univ.

For papers, visit cognitiveapproachestoliterature.commons.mla.org/

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