Lit & Mind Foundations
Lit & Mind Foundations
Lit & Mind Foundations is a new graduate and undergraduate reading and discussion group, initiated in the 2021-2022 academic year, intended as a space to read and discuss texts relevant to the study of Literature and Mind on an introductory level. As a group, we will be selecting reading material from the English Department's Literature and the Mind Reading List (linked below) that is of interest to us either personally or academically and working through this material in a casual, discussion-based format.
Our aim is to make this reading group an opportunity for low-stakes (but not low-enjoyment) engagement with the thinkers, concepts, and texts that make up the foundational study of Literature and Mind. We hope that these meetings will provide a space for grads and undergrads to gain a general sense of the field, become familiar with its major works as highlighted by UCSB's English Department, and determine which ideas contained within these texts might serve their own interests as students and lovers of literature.
Though all are welcome, we particularly encourage upper-division undergraduates, enthusiastic English majors, and first and second-year graduate students (especially those considering Lit & Mind as an area of study/teaching) to attend.