Paula Leverage, associate professor of French and director of the Center for Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue University will speak on “Reading Identity through Theory of Mind in Secular and Religious Texts of the Middle Ages” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106.
Leverage has published two books: Reception and Memory: A Cognitive Approach to the Chansons de geste (Rodopi, 2010), and the co-edited volume, Theory of Mind and Literature (Purdue University Press, 2011).
This lecture is part of the CEMERS Fall Speaker Series “Why Read? Pre-modern Narrative after the Cognitive Turn.”