Penelope Rosenstock-Murav holds a doctorate in Romance Studies – French with a minor in Cognitive Science at Cornell University. She is currently teaching in France, at the Université de Besançon. Her dissertation seeks to explore new ways of thinking the mind and language through forms and formulations of recursion in Renaissance and baroque poetry and theater, cognitive science, and French theory. She received a Master 1 in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 in 2015 and graduated from the University of Chicago in 2013. Penelope was one of the inaugural members of the Humanities Lab.