EXPERIMENTAL HUMANITIES LAB
Fritz Breithaupt
PEOPLE
Director
FRITZ BREITHAUPT
Johns Hopkins, PhD 1997. Professor Germanic Studies, Affiliated Faculty Cognitive Science, Adjunct Professor Comparative Literature.
Fritz Breithaupt is Provost Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the director of graduate studies in Cognitive Science. His research focuses on empathy and narrative thinking.
His latest book Das narrative Gehirn (The Narrative Brain) is the Science Book of the Year 2023 in Austria. Recent publications include his books Die Kultur der Empathie (Cultures of Empathy), The Dark Sides of Empathy, and an article on "Quantifying the retention of emotions across story retellings" in Nature Scientific Reports.
Breithaupt is a frequent contributor to the press, including NPR, BBC, SRF, Die Zeit, and Philosophie Magazin.
Member
BINYAN LI
UCLA, BA 2014, History, Language, and Literature; Indiana University, MA in Italian Studies 2016. MA student in Computational Linguistics 2019.
Binyan Li is completing his PhD in Cognitive Science at Indiana University where he studies the psychology of morality and narrative.
Member
BEN HISKES
Carleton College, BA, English and Neuroscience.
Indiana University, Joint PhD student in English Literature and Cognitive Science.
Member
CLAIRE WOODWARD
Brigham Young University, BA 2016, History and German.
Indiana University, MA 2019, Germanic Studies.
Indiana University PhD Candidate, Germanic Studies.
clamwood@iu.edu
Member
VICTORIA LAGRANGE
Assistant Professor of Game Narrative at Kennesaw State University
Doctor in Comparative Literature, and Indiana University PhD 2022, French and Comparative Media Studies
Université de Poitiers, PhD 2021, Comparative Literature
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, MA 2009, Comparative Literature
Member
MILO MURPHY HICKS
Mount Allison University, BA Honors English, Philosophy minor, 2014.
McGill University, MA English, 2016.
Indiana University, PhD candidate, English with a Cognitive Science minor.
Member
KARA RAITERI
Indiana University, BA student in Psychology with a minor in Spanish.
Member
RICARDO MARTINS
Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisB.A. in English Literature, 2013
Indiana University Bloomington, M.A. in Lusophone Literature, 2017
Indiana University Bloomington, PhD (A.B.D.) in Lusophone Literature (expected graduation May 2023)
Member
PHILIPP WEBER
Humboldt University Berlin, Dr. Phil. 2016.
Research assistant at the German Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum.
Feodor Lynen fellow of the Humboldt Foundation.
Member
DEVIN WRIGHT
Utah Valley University, BS 2021, Computer Science
Indiana University, Dual PhD Student
Informatics - Complex Networks and Systems | Cognitive Science
devrwrig@iu.edu
https://devwright.com/
FORMER MEMBERS
CONNOR BASKIN
Arizona State University, BS 2016, Supply Chain Management and German
Indiana University, MA 2019, Germanic Studies
DANNI BOYLAN
Indiana University, BA 2021, Biology
Current MS Ed in in History of Philosophy and Education
CAM CHAMBERS
Indiana University, BA 2020, Cognitive Science with a concentration in Neuroscience
VANESSA DENNY
Former Lab Manager
Indiana University, BS 2020, Cognitive Science
CHARLES EXDELL
Indiana University PhD Student Candidate,
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
KEVIN GARDNER
Indiana University, BA 2014
YAMEEN HAMEED
Indiana University, BA 2017, Cognitive science and Writing program
ANDREW HAMILTON
Andrew Hamilton (seated) is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at The College of the Holy Cross. His research focuses on narratology and semiotics in German and European literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
PhD 2015, Indiana University
TOBIAS HERMANS
Ghent, PhD 2016. BAEF Post-Doc at Indiana University 2016-17
GWYNNETH HURLEY
Indiana University, BA 2016, Journalism and Cognitive Science
WILL JETTINGHOFF
Indiana University, BA 2018, Psychology
University of British Columbia MA/PhD Student, Social-Personality Psychology
LAUREN LU
Indiana University, BA 2016, Neuroscience
Current medical student
SOPHIA MUSTON
Indiana University, BA student
DENIZHAN PAK
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, BS 2019, Computer Science and Mathematics.
Indiana University Masters Student, Computational Linguistics
ELIZABETH RYBA
Fordham University, BA 2012
Indiana University, MA in Comparative Literature 2015
ELEANOR B. SCHILLE-HUDSON
Indiana University, BA 2017. Cognitive Science, Germanic Studies.
Indiana University PhD Student, Cognitive Science.
MARGARET SCHNABEL
Indiana University, BA student focusing on English and Cognitive Science
AMY SCOBEY
Indiana University, BA student
MARIA TRIANTAFYLLOPOULOS
Indiana University, BS 2020, Neuroscience and French
mtrianta@umail.iu.edu
SARAH WHALEY
Indiana University, BA 2016, Journalism and Cognitive Science