Stephanie Fetta Stephanie Fetta is Associate Professor of Latin@/ xStephanie Fetta  uses the term Latin@/x when referring to someone who is native of or descends from a Latin American or  Caribbean country for the following reasons: first, this term does not reinforce the historic connotations of colonialization or comply with governmental attempts to classify non-hegemonic persons into deceptive categories as the term Hispanic does; second, the @ does not overlook historical struggles for gender equity; third, the suffix x acknowledges the existence of gender fluidity and non-binary sexual identities. Literature and Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Stephanie Fetta’s approach to somatic theory weaves together an extensive array of disciplinary discourses, ranging from cognitive science and neuroscience to sociology and Sophiology. As a literary and cultural critic, Fetta draws attention to and investigates the role of the soma in her study of US Latin@/x creative texts. Her scholarly work broadens the scope of somatic theory and literary scholarship by drawing support from the natural and social sciences to position the soma as a “psychobiological agent” and social actor, and thus an overlooked (albeit indispensable) lens in the study of social power (2018, 37). Building on the biblical use of the term, Fetta reconceptualizes traditional interpretations of the soma describing it as ‘the emotional, intelligent and communicative body’ and explains that it refers to the gestures of the physical body in internal response to external social pressures. Hence, she is one of the first somatic theorists to employ the term soma along these lines—despite the current spate of studies in neurology, cognitive literary studies, behavioral science, body studies, affect theory, theories of mind (ToM) and philosophy of mind (PoM) which piece together the connections among cognitive processes, bodily feeling reactions, and evaluative perceptions.
Stephanie Fetta Stephanie Fetta is Associate Professor of Latin@/ x Literature and Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Stephanie Fetta’s approach to somatic theory weaves together an extensive array of disciplinary discourses, ranging from cognitive science and neuroscience to sociology and Sophiology. As a literary and cultural critic, Fetta draws attention to and investigates the role of the soma in her study of US Latin@/x creative texts.Stephanie Fetta uses the term Latin@/x when referring to someone who is native to or descends from a Latin American or Spanish-speaking Caribbean country for the following reasons: first, this term does not reinforce the historic connotations of colonialization nor comply with governmental attempts to classify non-hegemonic persons into deceptive categories like the term Hispanic does; second, the @ does not overlook historical struggles for gender equity; third, the suffix x acknowledges the existence of gender fluidity and non-binary sexual identities. Her scholarly work broadens the scope of somatic theory and literary scholarship by drawing support from the natural and social sciences to position the soma as a “psychobiological agent” and social actor, and thus an overlooked (albeit indispensable) lens in the study of social power (2018, 37). Building on both biblical and contemporary uses of the term, Fetta reconceptualizes the soma as ‘the emotional, intelligent and communicative body’ and explains that it refers to the gestures of the physical body in internal response to external social pressures. Hence, she is one of the first somatic theorists to employ the term soma along these lines—despite the current spate of studies in neurology, cognitive literary studies, behavioral science, body studies, affect theory, theories of mind (ToM) and philosophy of mind (PoM) which piece together the connections among cognitive processes, bodily feeling reactions, and evaluative perceptions.
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