{"id":889,"date":"2016-10-20T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=889"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:37:46","slug":"a-shade-or-a-shape-of-you-theory-of-mind-in-lily-briscoes-vision-a-talk-by-professor-sowon-park-english-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Shade or a Shape of You: Theory of Mind in Lily Briscoe’s Vision,\u201d a talk by Professor Sowon Park (English, UCSB)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Literature and the Mind Initiative<\/a>\u00a0will host its Inaugural Talk on Monday, October 24th at 5:30 in South Hall 2635. Professor Sowon Park (UCSB, English) will deliver a lecture on Theory of Mind in\u00a0To the Lighthouse<\/em> that will be of great interest to all COMMA members.<\/p>\n

Professor\u00a0Sowon Park specializes in British Modernism, Political Fiction, World Literature, and the relationship between Literature and other forms of knowledge, in particular Cognitive Neuroscience. Before coming to UCSB, she taught at Oxford University for over a decade, where she was Lecturer and Tutor in English at Corpus Christi College. Her previous academic appointments were at Cambridge University and Ewha University, Seoul. She has also held visiting appointments at UCSD and ZFL, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren, Berlin. She received an M.Phil and D.Phil in English from Oxford. Recently, she was awarded a four-year AHRC grant to work on \u201cPrismatic Translation\u2019. Her latest publication is a special issue of The Journal of World Literature<\/em>that she guest-edited, titled, The Chinese Scriptworld and World Literature<\/em> (June, 2016). She has published her academic work in The Review of English Studies<\/em>, MLQ<\/em>, ELT<\/em>, European Review<\/em>, Arcadia<\/em>,Neohelicon <\/em>and Comparative Critical Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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“A Shade or a Shape of You: Theory of Mind in Lily Briscoe’s Vision”<\/span>:<\/p>\n

In the last fifteen years, \u201cTheory of Mind (ToM)\u201d has been the object of intense investigation in developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, anthropogeny, philosophy and literary studies, producing a number of related concepts to develop our understanding of how we impute mental states to ourselves and others. The first part of the paper will provide a brief overview of current research and consider issues that emerge when these terms are translated across disciplines. The second part will discuss relevant findings in ToM research in neuroscience and bring them to bear on the private vision of Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse<\/em>. The aim of the paper is to reflect on what ToM might mean for literary research that makes it distinct from other lines of inquiry and to consider Intersubjectivity from a ToM angle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Literature and the Mind Initiative\u00a0will host its Inaugural Talk on Monday, October 24th at 5:30 in South Hall 2635. Professor Sowon Park (UCSB, English) will deliver a lecture on Theory of Mind in\u00a0To the Lighthouse that will be of great interest to all COMMA members. Professor\u00a0Sowon Park specializes in British Modernism, Political Fiction, World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}