Suzanne Keen, Professor of English, published an article, “Affective Resonance and Narrative Immersion,” in the Routledge volume, Empathy’s Role in Understanding Literature, Persons, and Art (2023), edited by Thomas Petraschka and Christiana Werner. The interdisciplinary volume clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. Keen’s contribution investigates structural similarities between human affective resonance and readers’ empathy. Drawing on her prior theorizing of co-creating readers/ various contributions to narrative empathy, she discusses affective components of reading fiction and narrative transportation.
She also published a book review of Cara Glatt’s Narrative and its Non-Events: the Unwritten Plots that Shaped Victorian Realism (University of Virginia Press, 2022) in Nineteenth-Century Contexts (August 2023).