C.W. Post English Professor Suzanne Nalbantian, Author of ‘Memory
in Literature,’ Lectures at Major Universities Around the U.S.
Recent interdisciplinary talks at Yale, Stanford, Indiana, Pitt & Carnegie Mellon focus
on connection between literature and neuroscience

Brookville, N.Y. – Suzanne Nalbantian, a professor of English at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has aroused nation-wide attention with her pathblazing discoveries in the connection between the humanities and neuroscience. 

Suzanne Nalbantian, Professor of English at the C.W. Post Campus

The author of the acclaimed 2003 book “Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience,” Dr. Nalbantian in recent years has given invited lectures at such prestigious universities as Yale University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University, and the University of Pittsburgh. She also has lectured at the world-renowned cancer research center Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University Club in New York City.

Invitations to speak on the nexus of literature and neuroscience have come from diverse academic departments such as psychology and literature – underscoring the emergence of a more global approach to the study of the mind, Dr. Nalbantian said.  Noteworthy institutions in Western Europe are now approaching her with lecture invitations.

“This is an integrative and truly interdisciplinary subject, one that may hold great potential as a new path to understanding memory, emotion and the senses, and even the tantalizing mysteries of the creative mind,” Dr. Nalbantian said.

“Memory in Literature” (Palgrave Macmillan) has been widely acclaimed since it was published in hardcover in January 2003. Described by one reviewer as a “fascinating tour de force,” “Memory in Literature” analyzes the classic works of such writers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Andre Breton, William Faulkner and Octavio Paz. Through this analysis, Dr. Nalbantian collects and interprets data on memory processes involving emotions, the senses, short- and long-term memory, the unconscious mind, environmental associations and involuntary vs. voluntary memory, and confabulation.