Kay Young teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of *IMAGINING MINDS: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy* and *ORDINARY PLEASURES: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy*. She is a research fellow at the Institute of...
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Kay Young teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of *IMAGINING MINDS: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy* and *ORDINARY PLEASURES: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy*. She is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, co-director of the Literature and Mind Initiative at UCSB, and traveling scholar and lecturer for the Jane Austen Society of North America. A lover of novels, film, dance, and Italy, she looks forward one day to living her dream as Contessa in a villa of her own...
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