In Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies. Ed. Lisa Zunshine. Oxford University Press (2014).
Sample Writings
Opinion Pieces
Creative Nonfiction
- Eulogy for F.D. Reeve
- The Exile of Not Exactly
- Myself on High
- River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies
- The Dark Night of Synecdoche
- The Lobes of Autobiography: Poetry and Autism
- Severe and Profound
- “Piecing Together What History Has Broken to Bits”: Air Flight Florida 90 and the PATCO Disaster
Poetry
Scholarship
- Just Published: “Neurocosmopolitan Melville.”
- Just published: “I Might Be Famous.”
- Just Published: Moving the Field: The Sensorimotor Perspective on Autism
- Just published: “Easy Breathing Forever.”
- Just published: “From Neurodiversity to Neurocosmopolitanism: Beyond Mere Acceptance and Inclusion.”
- Forthcoming: “The Critic as Neurocosmopolite: What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies: Lisa Zunshine in Conversation with Ralph James Savarese.””
- Forthcoming: “What Some Autistics Can Teach Us about Poetry: A Neurocosmopolitan Approach.”
- Literate Lungs: One Autist’s Journey as a Reader
- Gobs and Gobs of Metaphor: Dynamic Relation and a Classical Autist’s Typed Massage
- “Organic Hesitancy”: On Speechlessness in Billy Budd
- Toward a Postcolonial Neurology: Autism, Tito Mukhopadhyay, and a New Geo-poetics of the Body
- Nervous Wrecks and Ginger-nuts: Bartleby at a Standstill
Interviews