amy cook

Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, College of Arts and Sciences
Stony Brook University

Amy Cook is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Professor in English. Cook specializes in the intersection of cognitive science and theatre with particular attention to Shakespeare and contemporary performance. Her book, Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting (University of Michigan Press, 2018), was published in March 2018. She has also published Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies (Methuen, 2016), co-edited with Rhonda Blair. She received her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego (2006), had a postdoc at Emory and accepted a position at Indiana University before coming to Stony Brook. For more information and to download selected publications, go to https://sbsuny.academia.edu/AmyCook.

Email: amy.cook@stonybrook.edu