!!Karin Kukkonen - Biography
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Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo. Her main areas of expertise are cognitive poetics, cognitive narratology and the history of the novel. She has published extensively on the links between poetics of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and current modes of theorising fiction and narrative. Her publications include four monographs, among them A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics: Neoclassicism and the Novel (OUP, 2017) and Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing (OUP, 2020). Her current research investigates creativity, contingency and literary writing. Kukkonen has received multiple grants, and she is currently leading the interdisciplinary research initiative “Literature, Cognition and Emotions” at the University of Oslo (2019-2023). In 2018/2019, she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2021, she was a visiting professor / researcher at the EHESS in Paris and at La Sapienza, Roma I.\\ \\