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Scripps Magazine: The Art and Science of Empathy
By Jen A. Miller Illustrations by Saskia Keultjes Early in her research, President Suzanne Keen—a narrative empathy theorist who studies the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism—became convinced that […]
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Scripps Magazine: Welcome, President Keen
Scripps College welcomes its 10th president, Suzanne Keen, an internationally known narrative empathy theorist whose work as a leader, scholar, and teacher is animated by an ethic of care.
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In the Media: Suzanne Keen Article on Narrative Empathy Published in Philosophy Journal
President Suzanne Keen has published an article, “Narrative Empathy and the Challenge of the Unrelatable,” in Bollettino Filosofico, an Italian philosophy journal.
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Suzanne Keen Contributes Text to Art Book on Sarah Oppenheimer
The book examines how four of the artist’s interactive artworks “break down barriers between art, audience, and architecture.”
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President Suzanne Keen’s Empathy and Reading Now Available from Routledge
“As people, it’s in our nature to relate to one another’s stories,” Keen explains. “When we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people’s perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own.”
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