Introduction; Chapter 1: MEMORY - Identity Formation in Narrative Time: Autonoesis in Reading Communities; Chapter 2: PERCEPTION and VISION - Part I: Multimodality and Writing War Experience; Part II: Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater?; Chapter 3: EMOTION - Emotion and Narrative in Legal Contexts; Chapter 4: EMBODIED COGNITION - Theory of Mind, Real-World Effects of Fiction, and Narrative Kinesis
Biography
Paula Leverage is Associate Professor of French and Medieval Studies, and Director of the Center for NeuroHumanities, at Purdue University, where she teaches literature, film, and neurocognitive studies to graduate and undergraduate students. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, she studied at the University of Toronto, where she first discovered cognitive theory as a doctoral student and Commonwealth Scholar. She is the author of Memory and Reception: A Cognitive Approach to the Chansons de Geste (Rodopi, 2010), and co-editor of Theory of Mind and Literature (Purdue University Press, 2010; second, revised and expanded edition, 2026), and has published extensively on memory, theory of mind, and creativity in journals such as Leonardo, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and French Review.
