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Personal Information

Research interests

Emprical Study of Literature
Empathy
Restorative justice
Phenomenology
Existential philosophy

Teaching

Seminar Embodied Cognition and the Empirical Study of Literature (WiSe 22/23)
Übung Advanced Empirical Methods (WiSe 22/23)

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals:

Sopcak, P., Kuiken, D., & Douglas, S. (2022). Existential reflection and morality. Frontiers in Communication, 7, 991774. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2022.991774

Sopcak, P. & Kuiken, D. (2022). The affective allure – a phenomenological dialogue with David Miall’s studies of foregrounding and feeling. Journal of Literary Semantics, 51(2), 75-91. doi: 10.1515/jls-2022-2053

Sopcak, P. (2020). Academic Integrity and the Pandemic. Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 3(2), 41-42. doi: 10.11575/cpai.v3i2.71649

Sopcak, P., Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. S. (2020). The Effects of Free Indirect Style in George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Reader Response Study. Empirical Approaches to Narrative: A Special Issue. Anglistik, 31(1), 15-29. doi: 10.33675/ANGL/2020/1/4

Salgaro, M., & Sopcak, P., (Eds.). (2018). Empirical Studies of Literariness: A Special Issue. Scientific Study of Literature, 8(1). doi: 10.1075/ssol.00004

Sopcak, P., Salgaro, M., & Hanauer, D. I. (2018). Introduction to the special issue. Scientific Study of Literature, 8(1), 1-4. doi: 10.1075/ssol.00004.int

Sopcak, P., Salgaro, M., & Herrmann, J. B. (Eds.). (2016). Transdisciplinary approaches to literature and empathy: A Special Issue. Scientific Study of Literature, 6(1). doi: 10.1075/ssol.6.1

Sopcak, P., Salgaro, M., & Herrmann, J. B. (2016). Introduction: Transdisciplinary approaches to literature and empathy. Scientific Study of Literature, 6(1), 2–5. doi: 10.1075/ssol.6.1.02sop

Dixon, P., Bortolussi, M., & Sopcak, P. (2015). Extratextual effects on the evaluation of narrative texts. Poetics, 48, 42–54. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2014.12.001

Sopcak, P. (2013). “He made her feel the beauty:” Readers’ responses to Maurice Blanchot and Virginia Woolf’s treatments of finitude. Scientific Study of Literature, 3(2), 209–239. doi: 10.1075/ssol.3.2.04sop

Kuiken, D., Campbell, P., and Sopcak, P. (2012). The Experiencing Questionnaire: Locating exceptional reading moments. Scientific Study of Literature, 2(2), 243–272. doi: 10.1075/ssol.2.2.04kui

Sopcak, P. & Kuiken, D. (2012). Reader’s engagements with Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: From knowing about death to the experience of finitude. Mémoires du Livre/Studies in Book Culture, 3(2). doi: 10.7202/1009348ar.

Sopcak, P. (2010). In memoriam: The experience of eulogizing a loved one. Phenomenology and Practice, 4(1), 88-96.

Bortolussi, M., Dixon, P., & Sopcak, P. (2010). Gender and reading. Poetics, 38(3), 299–318. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2010.03.004

Sopcak, P. (2007). “Creation from nothing”: a foregrounding study of James Joyce’s drafts for Ulysses. Language and Literature, 16(2), 183–196. doi: 10.1177/0963947007075984

Chapters in peer-reviewed collected volumes:

Sopcak, P., & Sopcak N. (in press). Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism. In M. Schneider-Mayerson, A. Weik von Mossner, W. Małecki, and F. Hakemulder (Eds.), Empirical Ecocriticism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Narrative. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Sopcak, P. & Hood, K. (2022). Building a Culture of Restorative Practice and Restorative Responses to Academic Misconduct. In S. E. Eaton & J. Christensen-Hughes (Eds.), Academic Integrity in Canada. London, Berlin, New York: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-83255-1_29

Kuiken, D. & Sopčák, P. (2021). Openness, Reflective Engagement, and Self-Altering Literary Reading. In D. Kuiken & A. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 305-342). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110645958-013

Peer, W., Sopčák, P., Castiglione, D., Fialho, O., Jacobs, A. & Hakemulder, F. (2021). Foregrounding. In D. Kuiken & A. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of Empirical Literary Studies (pp. 145-176). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110645958-007

Sopcak, P. (2018). “Creation from nothing:” a foregrounding study of James Joyce’s drafts for Ulysses (reprint). In M. Toyota (Ed.). Stylistics, Vol 4. New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.

Sopcak, P. (2011). A numerically aided phenomenological study of existential reading. In F. Hakemulder (Ed.), De Stralende Lezer: Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Naar De Invloed Van Het Lezen (pp. 123-152). Den Haag: Stichting Lezen.

Sopcak, P. (2008). Compassion and disgust as markers of cultural differences in reading violence. In J. Auracher & W. van Peer (Eds.), New Beginnings in Literary Studies (198-217). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Sopcak, P. (2008). Theoretical and philosophical perspectives: Introduction. In S. Zyngier, M. Bortolussi, A. Chesnokova, & J. Auracher (Eds.), Directions in empirical studies: In honour of Willie van Peer (3-5). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Sopcak, P. (2007). Intertextuality in Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines and T.G.H. Strehlow’s Songs of Central Australia. In S. Zyngier, A. Chesnokova, & V. Viana (Eds.), Acting and connecting: Cultural approaches to language and literature (pp. 61-82). Münster: Lit Verlag.

Vander, V., Fialho, O., Sopcak, P., Sergeyeva, M. & Rumbesht, A. (2007). (In)visible networks in action: Four perspectives” In S. Zyngier, A. Chesnokova, & V. Viana (Eds.), Acting and connecting: Cultural approaches to language and literature (pp. 23-49). Münster: Lit Verlag.

Other publications:

Sopcak, P., (2011). Epiphanies of Finitude: A Phenomenological Study of Existential Reading. University of Alberta. Dissertation. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/cz30pt532/Sopcak%20Dissertation%20final%20to%20FGSR.pdf

Sopcak, P., Kuiken, D., & Miall, D. (2008). Beyond ‘voices:’ Empirical studies of free indirect discourse in Middlemarch. In Kenneth S. Bordens (Ed.). Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 297-300). Chicago, IL: IAEA.

Sopcak, P. (2007). Book review: Muses and measures: Empirical research methods for the humanities. In F. Hakemulder, D. Miall, & S. Zyngier (Eds.), IGEL Newsletter 20.

Sopcak, P. & Auracher, J. (2005). A brief report on the IGEL Summer Institute. In F. Hakemulder, D. Miall, & S. Zyngier (Eds.), IGEL Newsletter 15.