Professor Dr. Paul Armstrong

Biography

Paul Armstrong is a Professor Emeritus with an academic focus on the relations between neuroscientific research, consciousness, cognition, and literary theories. His recent work, 'Stories Brain: Neuroscience Narrative' published in 2020, explores narrative through a neuro-phenomenological lens. He has also produced significant scholarly editions, including the Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster's 'A Passage to India' in 2021, and is currently working on an edition of Forster's 'Howards End' for Cambridge University Press. Armstrong contributed to various journals, including a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on Cognitive Modernisms in 2022. He has taught at various prestigious institutions, contributed to literary criticism and has received numerous accolades for his work, including the William Riley Parker Prize. As a member of several editorial boards and past president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, he actively engages in scholarly discourse. His scholarship demonstrates his commitment to understanding the intersection of cognitive science and literary studies, exploring how narratives shape and are shaped by cognitive processes.

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