Julien J. Simon, PhD

Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Study Abroad
World Languages & Cultures Department
Whitewater Hall, room 271
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 973-8622
jjsimon@iue.edu
Academia
ResearchGate

Education

• PhD. Spanish. Purdue University. Dec 2006.
• MA. Spanish. Purdue University. May 2000.
• MS. Materials Science Engineering. University of Grenoble, France. 1998.

Current Research Interests

Early Modern Spanish Literature, Cognitive Literary Studies, Hispanic Studies, Literary Genres, Film Studies.

Books

• Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind. Routledge, 2022. [Co-edited with Isabel Jaén]
• Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain: Studies in Honor of Howard Mancing. Juan de la Cuesta, 2017. [Co-edited with Isabel Jaén and Carolyn Nadeau]
• Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Oxford University Press, 2016. [Co-edited with Isabel Jaén] Reviewed in Bulletin of the Comediantes (69.1), CHOICE (54.10), Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (1.2), Language and Literature (26.4), Hispania (101.1), and ywmls (78.1)
• Cognitive Literary Studies: Current Themes and New Directions. University of Texas Press, 2012. [Co-edited with Isabel Jaén] Reviewed in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (13.3), Language and Literature (22.4), Poetics Today (34.4), and Style (48.3)

Selected Publications

• “From the Life to the Mind of the Writer in the Literary Biopic: Andrucha Waddington’s Lope and Ray Loriga’s Teresa.” In Image and Storytelling: New Approaches to Hispanic Cinema and Literature. Edited by Gina Herrmann and Isabel Jaén. Spec. issue of Peripherica: A Journal of Social, Cultural and Literary History 1.2 (2020): 287-323.
• “A Wild Fable: Affect and Reception of Fernando de Rojas’ Celestina (1499).” The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism. Edited by Donald R. Wehrs and Thomas Blake. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 609-25.
• “Schema Theory, Prototype Theory, and the Novela Dialogada: Toward a Perspectivist and Dynamic View of Literary Genres.” Laberinto: An Electronic Journal of Early Modern Hispanic Literatures and Culture 7 (2014): 64-90.
• Cognitive Cervantes. Spec. cluster of essays of Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 32.1 (Spring 2012) [Guest-edited with Barbara Simerka and Howard Mancing]

Selected Awards

• Recipient for the John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Programs and Studies. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 2024.
• Recipient of Distinguished Service Award. Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2023.
• Recipient of Distinguished Research Award. Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2019.

Selected Professional Activities

• Member of Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching. Indiana University, IN. (Since 2012)
• Member of the Executive Committee for the Modern Languages Association “Cognitive Approaches to Literature” Discussion Group. 2010-2014. (Chair in 2013)
• Co-founder of the working group “Literary Theory, Cognition, and the Brain,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.