{"id":8643,"date":"2022-06-10T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/academics\/hll\/?page_id=8643"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:51:52","slug":"barbara-simerka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/hll\/barbara-simerka\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Simerka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;10px||10px||true|false&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;off|20px|20px||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; 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She serves on the MLA\u00a0Executive Committee for 16th-17th century Spanish Drama.<\/div>\n<p>In recent years, her work has focused on cognitive theory and literature, with a focus on the sociocultural dimensions of mirror neuron functions: theory of mind, emotional contagion, and reader empathy and immersion. She co-edited &#8220;Cognitive Cervantes&#8221;, a special issue of Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America (Spring 2012). She is author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepress.purdue.edu\/titles\/format\/9781557536440\">Knowing Subjects: Cognitive Cultural Studies and Early Modern Spanish Literature<\/a>. 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