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Karin Kukkonen is a Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. She holds a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for her project JEUX – Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel, and leads the interdisciplinary LCE (Literature, Cognition and Emotions) research center. Her academic journey includes roles as Associate Professor (2015-2017), Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2015), and Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2013).
Her research focuses on cognitive poetics, cognitive narratology, and the history of the novel, particularly exploring links between early modern poetics and contemporary cognitive theories. Notable works include A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics (2017) and Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing (2020). Current projects investigate creativity, contingency, and literary writing, alongside interdisciplinary collaborations with psychology and linguistics.
Key awards include the University of Oslo’s Younger Researcher of the Year (2019) and election to the Academy of Europe (2022). She has held visiting roles at EHESS (Paris), La Sapienza (Rome), and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her work bridges literary studies with cognitive science, emphasizing embodied cognition and narrative design.
Grants and leadership include directing the LCE initiative (2019-2023) and managing the JEUX project. She teaches courses on comparative literature, cognitive literary study, and eighteenth-century fiction. Her research outputs span monographs, peer-reviewed articles, and the LCE Podcast, showcasing interdisciplinary dialogue.
