Lisa Zunshine (born 24 August 1968)[1] is an American literary scholar, who publishes in British literature, comparative literature, film/media studies, and cognitive literary theory.
She came to the United States as a refugee, from Latvia, when she was twenty-one, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998.
She is professor of English[2] at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; a Guggenheim fellow (2007); and author or editor of thirteen books, including Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012),The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (Oxford UP, 2015), and The Secret Life of Literature (MIT Press, 2022).