Tuesday, October 29 at 4:30, LC 317. The English Department Eighteenth-Century British Literature Series presents: Gabrielle Starr, Professor of English, NYU. Gabrielle Starr is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and of aesthetics, as well as a researcher in neuroaesthetics, a relatively new field of inquiry that uses the tools of cognitive neuroscience to explore the contours of aesthetic experience. Her first book, Lyric Generations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), is a history of the interrelation of lyric poetry and the early British novel, in which she argues for the need to understand the history of changes in literary form as emerging from cross-generic interactions. More recently she has been engaged in empirical and theoretical work in neuroaesthetics. Her most recent book is called Feeling Beauty (forthcoming from MIT Press), and it explores the ways our responses to the Sister Arts of painting, poetry and music are mediated by brain-based reward processes and by the default mode network.