Discussion Session - Jana Lüdtke, Hannah Wojciehowsk

Jana Lüdtke is a psychologist specialized in reading, text comprehension and Neurocognitive Poetics. She studied Psychology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Humboldt University of Berlin and completed her Ph.D. in the field of psycholinguistics. Currently, she holds the position as a research assistant and laboratory manager within department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin. Jana Lüdtke is involved in a range of interdisciplinary projects on reading literary texts.

Hannah Wojciehowski is the Arthur J. and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English and the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Wojciehowski received her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. She is the author of Old Masters, New Subjects: Early Modern and Poststructuralist Theories of Will and Group Identity in the Renaissance World, and she edited Shakespeare’s Cymbeline for the New Kittredge Shakespeare Series. She has authored numerous book chapters, articles, and creative works on the early modern literature and culture and on literary theory past and present. She is currently co-editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
Wojciehowski has co-authored several articles on cognitive literary theory with neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, including their 2011 essay “How Stories Make Us Feel” and “Embodied Simulation and Emotional Engagement with Fictional Characters” (Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, 2022), and a special issue of Costellazioni entitled Narrative and the Biocultural Turn (2018).

NEUROSCIENCE & HUMANITIES LAB
Centre for Advanced Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience & the Humanities

The interdepartmental lab N&H of the University of Parma aims to promote and develop research in the field of relations between the humanities and cognitive neurosciences. This objective is pursued through the realization of scientific research projects, workshops, seminars, conferences and conventions, promotions of research networks and Fellowships, building of national and international relations with other universities and research centers active in this field, developing partnerships both with public and private entities and institutions.

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Il Laboratorio interdipartimentale N&H dell’Università degli Studi di Parma ha lo scopo di promuovere e sviluppare la ricerca nell’ambito delle relazioni tra le discipline umanistiche e le neuroscienze cognitive. Questo obiettivo è perseguito attraverso la realizzazione di progetti di ricerca scientifica, workshop, seminari, conferenze e convegni, promozioni di reti di ricerca e di Fellowships, costruzione di relazioni nazionali e internazionali con altri Atenei e Centri di ricerca attivi in questo campo, sviluppando rapporti sia con enti e istituzioni di carattere pubblico che privato.

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NEUROSCIENCE & HUMANITIES LAB
Centre for Advanced Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience & the Humanities

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Deputy Director: Prof. Michele Guerra
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