I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies at Durham University and Director of the Narrative and Cognition Lab. My research connects narrative theory, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and media studies, with a focus on mind-modelling, fictionality, immersion, emersivity, and the permeability between real and imagined experience. I am the author of Beckett and the Cognitive Method (OUP, 2021) and co-editor of the forthcoming OUP volume Dreams, Narrative, and Liminal Cognition. I am completing a monograph on cognitive and phenomenological permeability and I recently published work on immersive co-presence with fictional ch…
I am an Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies at Durham University and Director of the Narrative and Cognition Lab. My research connects narrative theory, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and media studies, with a focus on mind-modelling, fictionality, immersion, emersivity, and the permeability between real and imagined experience. I am the author of Beckett and the Cognitive Method (OUP, 2021) and co-editor of the forthcoming OUP volume Dreams, Narrative, and Liminal Cognition. I am completing a monograph on cognitive and phenomenological permeability and I recently published work on immersive co-presence with fictional characters, fictional emersivity, and the relational dynamics of human–AI interaction.
