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The latest issue of the LCE Newsletter was sent to our subscribers on 7 September. You can access it here online, and sign up to receive our coming newsletters.

What happens when a text encourages certain reader's expectations – and then challenges these later on? In the final episode of this season of the LCE Podcast, Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative literature and convener of LCE, presents her research on Probability Designs.

Does fiction hold the power to change the life of its reader? In this episode, Affiliated Researcher at LCE and Postdoctoral Researcher at Huyghens-ING/KNAW, Olivia Fialho, presents her research on transformative reading. 

Do we read the same text differently if we take it to be fiction, autobiography, or something in between? In this episode of the LCE Podcast, Post Doctoral Research Fellow at UiO, Alexandra Effe, presents her research on autofiction from a cognitive perspective.

How do material properties of texts influence our experience as readers? In this episode of the LCE Podcast, Natalia Igl, Associate Researcher at LCE, shares her research on multimodality.

The latest LCE Newsletter was sent to our subscribers on 16 June. Here, you can access it online and subscribe to receive our forthcoming newsletters. 

When heroines write poetry in dangerous situations, are they just caught up in feelings or do they claim agency? In this episode, Yasemin Hacıoğlu, Senior Lecturer at NTNU, shares her research on Gothic heroines' poetry with the LCE podcast.

LCE takes up its guest researcher programme again.

Sarah Bro Trasmundi has joined the LCE team in February 2022, and she will be working with LCE until the end of 2024. 

Is your MA thesis about literature and its cognitive and emotional dimensions? Then you can apply for a stipend.

LCE congratulates Ylva Østby  on winning the Teaching Prize of the UiO Psychology Department.

The LCE Master Study Group  is an offer for master students who want to exchange thoughts, ideas, and literary experiences with fellow students.

Are you a student with an interest in the intersection of literature, cognition and emotions? LCE offers courses for both BA and MA students.

All literature students probably ask themselves this question: Why do I read? Why and how does literature affect me? In courses offered by the LCE study programme, we aim to  illuminate reading experiences through cognitive approaches and to provide insights into how literary texts are built to actually affect our thoughts and feelings.

Post-doctoral researcher Essi Varis from the University of Helsinki is going to join the research team at LCE with a one-year scholarship from Postdoc-Pooli

Novellas, emotions and encounters between East and West – LCE members participate in the Novellember festival.

Writing in an academic context is far from obvious. How important is style and how do I judge it? What is my academic voice? Which tools can help me become a better and more productive writer? How do I overcome writer’s block?

Can you say you read a book when you listened to its audio version? What does voice add to print and paper? And are the habits of audiobook-listeners different from paper-readers?

The LCE Study Group  is an offer for master students who  want to exchange thoughts, ideas, and literary experiences with fellow students.

Mats Haraldsen and Marlene Andresen have previously been assistants at LCE. Now started their fellowships as doctoral students at ILOS. In this article, they talk about their upcoming projects.

Are you interested in cognition and literature, and do you want to study abroad? LCE collaborates with universities from all around the world. Read more about your opportunities for exchange studies. 

When you read texts that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction, it may lead you to reflect on truths about yourself and the world you live in.

A part-time position (30%) as LCE's Research Assistant is now available.

Are you a student with an interest in the intersection of literature, cognition and emotions? LCE offers courses for both BA and MA students.

Is your MA thesis about literature and its cognitive and emotional dimensions? Then you can apply for a stipend.