Unconscious Memory

Project Summary

The Unconscious Memory project brought together faculty and graduate students from English, Neuroscience and Computer Science to explore the intersection of research on human memory within neuroscience with humanities-based study of the unconscious mind in literature and connections with artificial intelligence in computer science. The goals were to further define this interdisciplinary landscape, identify areas of new avenues of research and revise and develop undergraduate and graduate courses around these intersections. The group’s efforts resulted in a productive graduate seminar, number of conference presentations on the intersections between literature, unconscious memory and neuroscience, a new undergraduate GE course and a revised interdisciplinary course connected to literature and the mind, a new undergraduate reading group and several productive undergraduate mentorship opportunities.