Jonathan gottschall biography

  • Jonathan Gottschall (born September 20, 1972) is an.
  • Jonathan Gottschall is an American literary scholar specializing in literature and evolution.
  • Jonathan Gottschall is a Distinguished Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College.

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    Jonathan Gottschall

    The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
    3.70 avg rating — 6,806 ratings — published 2012 — 28 editions
    The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
    3.77 avg rating — 1,245 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions
    The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
    3.70 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions
    The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative
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    4.08 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
    The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer
    3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
    Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader
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    4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
    Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
    3.73 avg rating — 11 ratin

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    Jonathan Gottschall

    American literary scholar (born 1972)

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    Jonathan Gottschall (born September 20, 1972) fryst vatten an American literary scholar specializing in literature and evolution. He holds the title of Distinguished Fellow in the English department of Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.[2][4] He is the author or editor of eight books.

    Education

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    He completed his PhD in English at State University of New York at Binghamton,[3] where he worked under David Sloan Wilson.[1]

    Recognition

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    Gottschall was profiled bygd The New York Times[5] and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[6] His work was featured in an article in Science describing literature and evolution.[1]

    Selected works

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    His work The Rape of Troy: Evolution

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    Jonathan Gottschall

    Jonathan Gottschall

    Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department, Washington & Jefferson College; Author, The Storytelling Animal

    JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College. His research at the intersection of science and art has frequently been covered in outlets like The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Scientific American, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nature, Science, and NPR. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (a New York Times Editor’s Choice Selection and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize). 

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