Jean-François Vernay (ed.). 2021. The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities. New York: Routledge

At a time when in Australia the humanities are becoming less important to the benefit of STEM education, the cognitive approach to the study of literature is acquiring symbolic and political significance. It could be seen as a promising area of reconciliation of the sciences with the humanities, in which literature is redefined as a rich cognitive artefact and a kind of ever-expanding archive which, among other things, embodies the extension of the cognitive capacities of our brain. All of this probably helps to explain why Australian cognitive and neurohumanist literary studies seem to be multiplying and gaining more and more visibility in the global academic scene, with a growing number of theoretical works mixing scientific approaches and literary critical practice. A survey of such emerging research field was attempted in the volume The Rise of Australian Neurohumanities edited by Jean-François Vernay (2021).