Karin Kukkonen

Karin Kukkonen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, where she directs the LCE Centre for Literature, Cognition and Emotions. Her ERC-funded research bridges literary studies with cognitive science, examining predictive processing in narrative comprehension.

Research Innovations:

• Predictive Processing models for literary analysis
• Embodiment in 18th-century fiction
• Metanarrative structures in early novels
• Cognitive approaches to graphic narratives