Prof Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski

Hannah C Wojciehowski is Professor of English and Comparative Literature Affiliate at the University of Texas at Austin.  With a background in fine arts and literary studies, Wojciehowski completed her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies at Yale University.  A cultural theorist specializing in the history of subjectivity and “group subjectivity,” a form of distributed cognition, Wojciehowski is the author of Group Identity in the Renaissance World (Cambridge UP, 2011).  She has recently edited Shakespeare’s Cymbeline for the New Kittredge Shakespeare Series (Hackett, 2015), and she has authored numerous book chapters, articles and creative works.  

Wojciehowski’s recent work explores the intersections of aesthetics, biopolitics, and cognitive-affective neuroscience and psychology.  She collaborated with Italian neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, one of the discoverers of the primate mirror neuron system, on an interview and an article entitled “How Stories Make Us Feel: Toward an Embodied Narratology” (California Italian Studies 2, No. 1 [2011]).