People, institutions and financing

Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, researcher principal

She is researcher of the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra, as well as the network Hen Lab for the study of multimodal communication. He is also researcher of the Institute for Advanced programs of study of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where he works at project EMOCCC on framework of A History of Distributed Cognition. He has been researcher at the School of Philology Classical at the University of Oxford (project Emotions: the Greek paradigm) and at the Institute for Advanced programs of study Freiburg, as well as Marie Curie Fellow at the Universities of California-San Diego, Case Western Reserve, Oxford and Murcia.

His work work has been published in American Journal of Philology, Language and Literature, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts or Pragmatics and Cognition, among other scientific journals, as well as in Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins or Oxford University Press. He has presented more than forty lectures, panels or talks at international conferences and other academic activities in Europe, Canada and the USA.

D. in Classical Philology and a B.A. in English Philology from the University of Murcia. He also completed a Master of Arts in Classics at the University of London, University College London.

Institutions and sponsors

EMOCCC is part of a long-term research program deadline to study creativity, image schemas and conceptual mixture models in the language of emotions. So far, the project has received funding from a European Commission Marie Curie International scholarship (project NARLYR from Case Western Reserve University, University of California San Diego, University of Murcia and University of Oxford), as well as from a scholarship ERC Advanced Grant project "Emotions: The Greek Paradigm" from the University of Oxford(GREMOMET).

The next phase of EMOCCC, also based on Greek material, will be developed within the project A History of Distributed Cognition University of Edinburgh, directed by Prof. Cairns and funded by a Douglas Cairns and funded by a £600,000 scholarship from the committee of research of Arts and Humanities (Arts and Humanities Research Council). Professor Cairns has pioneered the application of methods from cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in classical Greece and is currently working on a book graduate tentatively Mind, Body and Metaphor in Ancient Greek Concepts of Emotion.

For the theoretical context of project, he will continue to collaborate with Professor Mark Turner (Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University), co-author of Blending Theory, and Professor Jean Mandler (Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego), the leading cognitive psychologist in the study of early training of concepts through image schemas.