Centre for Human Interactivity is welcoming visiting scholar, Elena Clare Cuffari.
CHI (Centre for Human Interactivity) is currently hosting a visiting scholar, Elena Clare Cuffari, from the University of the Basque Country.
Elena is a post-doctoral Experienced Researcher in the Marie Curie ITN TESIS, working in the department of Logic and Philosophy of Science in San Sebastian. She earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Oregon in 2011.
Her doctoral research examined points of contact between phenomenological and pragmatist philosophies of language, embodied cognitive science, and contemporary research in speech accompanying hand gestures.
A summary publication of this work is “Gestural sense-making: hand gestures as intersubjective linguistic enactments” (2012) in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11:4, 599-622. She is working on a book manuscript that invites a metamorphosis in philosophy of language and mind by taking on cospeech gesturing as a phenomenon of intercorporeal linguistic communication.
Elena is on a research visit to the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. There she is working with Glenda Satne on questions of intentionality and convention in cospeech gesture meaning. She is concurrently collaborating with Thomas Wiben Jensen at the University of Southern Denmark on empirical studies of metaphorical gesture during emotion talk.
Elena's e-mail:
elena.clare.cuffari@gmail.com and cuffari@hum.ku.dk.
Elena's website: elenaclarecuffari.wordpress.com.