Margaret H. Freeman

I am Professor Emerita of Los Angeles Valley College, co-director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts (a residential think-tank for researchers in the cognitive sciences and the arts, www.myrifield.org), and co-editor of the series in Cognition and Poetics with Oxford University Press and the series in Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts with Bloomsbury Academic. I helped found the Emily Dickinson International Society and served as its first president from 1988-1992. I have lectured and published widely in the fields of poetic and aesthetic cognition, with the recent publication of The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).