Amy Cook

Amy Cook is the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University and Professor of English. Most recently, she published “Shadow Play: Loss and Performativity” in TDR about art, mourning, and 4E cognition. Her scholarship integrates research from the cognitive sciences into theatre and performance, with particular attention to Shakespeare. She has published Shakespearean Futures: casting the bodies of tomorrow on Shakespeare’s stages today (Cambridge Elements 2020), Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting (Michigan 2018), Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance Through Cognitive Science (Palgrave 2010), and co-edited, with Rhonda Blair, Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies (Methuen 2016).