Professor Frienkel currently serves as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature. Additionally Lisa is ordained as a Zen Buddhist and facilitates meditation instruction “in university, prison and hospital environments.”
Lisa Myobun Freinkel received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley where she completed a dissertation with Stephen Greenblatt on Renaissance literature. She received her lay ordination as a Zen Buddhist at Butsugenji Temple in Eugene, Oregon. Among the academic grants she’s received are awards from the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, and humanities centers at both Berkeley and the University of Oregon. (From Professor Freinkel’s faculty page: http://complit.uoregon.edu/faculty/freinkel.html)
As part of Professor Freinkel’s seminar presentation here are some resources:
- Second Annual UO Symposium on Mindfulness in Science and Society (and the Common Reading Program in general)
http://commonreading.uoregon.edu/symposium-for-mindfulness-and-society/
- Additional talk by UO Professor Emeritus of Psychology Michael Posner on the topic of “Neuroscience of Integrated Body Mind Training”:
http://around.uoregon.edu/content/uos-posner-detail-research-benefits-mindfulness
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (the course Lisa teachs and scholarships are available):
http://academicextension.uoregon.edu/mbsr/
- Center for Mindfulness (the UMass center that is the worldwide leader in bringing mindfulness into medicine, education etc.):
http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/
- The Center for Contemplative Mind (bringing mindfulness and contemplative practice into higher education):
http://www.contemplativemind.org/
- Magic Eye books!
http://www.magiceye.com/about/books.html
