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Expertise
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Work
Work
“Imaging the Subjective”
Neuroaesthetics in Focus, ed. Anjan Chatterjee and Eileen Carrillo (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
(Edward A. Vessel and G. Gabrielle Starr)“Form and Perception: Wallace Stevens and Cognitive Perspectives on Aesthetics”
Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens, ed. Barry Eeckhout and Gül Han. New York: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)“Progress and Promise in Neuroaesthetics”
Neuron (forthcoming, 25 November 2020)
(Kyohito Iigaya, John P. O’Doherty, G. Gabrielle Starr)“Pܰ”
Further Reading, ed. Matthew Rubery and Leah Price. New York: Oxford University Press (2020): 282-293.
(G. Gabrielle Starr and Amy M. Belfi)“The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that generalizes across visual domains”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 116:38 (2019), 19155-19164.
(Edward A. Vessel, Asye Ilkay Isik, Amy M. Belfi, Jonathan L. Stahl, G. Gabrielle Starr)“Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network”
NeuroImage 188 (2019): 584-597.
(Amy M. Belfi, Edward A. Vessel, Aenne Brielmann, Ayse Ilkay Isik, Anjan Chatterjee, Helmut Leder, Denis G. Pelli, G. Gabrielle Starr)“”&Բ;Cognition (2018)
(Edward A. Vessel, Natalia Maurer, Alexander H. Denker, and G. Gabrielle Starr)“Rapid timing of musical aesthetic judgments”
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2018): 147:10, 1531-1543
(Amy M. Belfi, Anna Kasdan, Jess Rowland, Edward A. Vessel, G. Gabrielle Starr, David Poeppel)“Cognitive Literary Criticism”
Companion to Literary Theory, ed. David Richter
London: Wiley (2018): 408-22.“Bܳٲ”
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development, ed. Marc H. Bornstein, Martha E. Arterberry, Karen L. Fingerman, and Jennifer E. Lansfords
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE (2018)“”
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2017)
(Amy M. Belfi, Edward A. Vessel, and G. Gabrielle Starr)“Motion in Stevens and Frost”
The Wallace Stevens Journal 44:1 (2017): 90-92“Aesthetics and Impossible Embodiment: Stevens, Imagery and Disorientation”
The Wallace Stevens Journal 39:2 (2015): 157-81.“Theorizing Imagery, Aesthetics, and the Idea of Double Direction”
The Oxford Companion to Cognitive Approaches to Literature, ed. Lisa Zunshine
New York: Oxford University Press (2015): 246-68“Neuroaesthetics: Art”
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, second edition, ed. Michael Kelly
New York: Oxford University Press (2014) 4:487-91“Aesthetics and Taste: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Beyond in the Eighteenth Century”
A Companion to British Literature: Volume III: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660-1837, ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher
London: Blackwell (2014): 258-76“Personalized Visual Aesthetics”
(Edward A. Vessel, Jonathan Stahl, Natalia Maurer, Alexander Denker, G. Gabrielle Starr)
Proceedings of SPIE: Quality of Experience: Cognition, Emotion and Aesthetics 9014 (2014). doi:10.1117/12.2043126“Art Reaches Within: Aesthetic Experience, the Self and the Default Mode Network”
(Edward A. Vessel, G. Gabrielle Starr and Nava Rubin; “Tier 2”—invitations for Tier 2 publication are extended to authors whose research received highest ratings in Frontiers journals; refereed)Frontiers in Neuroscience 7:258 (2013). doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00258
Nonsite, “The Tank: Michael Clune” (2013):“Evolved Reading and the Science(s) of Literary Study”
Critical Inquiry (Winter 2012): 418-25“The Brain on Art: Intense Aesthetic Experience Activates the Default Mode Network” (Edward A. Vessel, G. Gabrielle Starr and Nava Rubin)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6:66 (2012) doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00066
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene
Princeton: Princeton University Press (2012): 393-94ٱԲٲ”
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene
Princeton: Princeton University Press (2012): 1290-92“Ovid, Burney, and the Value of the Beautiful”&Բ;
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 24:1 (Fall 2011): 77-104
(Nominated by Eighteenth-Century Fiction for the James L. Clifford Prize, 2012-13)“Narrative and Poesis: Defoe, Ovid and Transformative Writing”
Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe, ed. Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Kiltgård (161-77)
New York: Routledge, 2010“Multi-sensory Imagery” (invited)
Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies, ed. Lisa Zunshine (275-91)
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010“Poetic Subjects and Grecian Urns: Close Reading, Subjective Response, and the Tools of Cognitive Science”
Modern Philology 105:1 (August 2007): 48-61“Poetic Making and the Limits of Tropes: A Response to Brett Bourbon”
Modern Philology 105:1 (August 2007): 44-7“Cavendish, Aesthetics, and the Anti-Platonic Line”
Eighteenth-Century Studies 39:3 (Spring 2006): 295-308“Objects, Imaginings, and Facts: Going Beyond Genre in Behn and Defoe”
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 16:4 (July 2004): 499-518“Ethics, Meaning, and the Work of Beauty”
Eighteenth-Century Studies 35:3 (Spring 2002): 361-378
(reprinted in Proust: Modern Critical Interpretations)“Clarissa’s Relics and Lyric Community”
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 30 (2001): 127-151“Love’s Proper Musick: Lyric Inflection in Behn’s Epistles”&Բ;
Aphra Behn: Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity
Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000: 111-124“Rereading ‘Prose Fiction’: Lyric Convention in Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood”&Բ;
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 12:1 (October 1999): 1-18 -
Education
Education
Postdoctoral Instructor
Division of Humanities and Social Science
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA USAPh.D. in English and American Literature and Language
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA USARobert T. Jones Scholar
University of St Andrews
St Andrews, Scotland
B.A./M.A. Women’s Studies
Emory University
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Mellon New Directions Fellowship