Laura K. Wallace

Laura K. Wallace is a PhD student and assistant instructor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her academic interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. fiction, reception studies, and queer studies. She currently coedits The Ethnic and Third World (E3W) Review of Books at UT.

Essay

THE HOUSE IN THE READER'S MIND

SYMPATHY FOR THE CANVAS Have you heard about mirror neurons? In the 1980s and ’90s, neuroscientists studying macaque monkey brains began noticing that some of the same neurons responded when the monkeys put food in their mouths or when they watched other monkeys or humans put food in their own mouths. The same thing happened […]