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Elena Cuffari

Courtesy Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2012-2015
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Experienced Researcher, TESIS ITN
Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language, Embodied Cognition, Cognitive Linguistics

Statement

Dissertation: "Co-Speech Gesture in Communication and Cognition"

Committee: Mark Johnson (philosophy, chair), Eric Pederson (linguistics), Ted Toadvine (philosophy), Naomi Zack (philosophy)

Areas of specialization: philosophy of language, embodied cognition, cognitive linguistics

Areas of competence:  20th century Continental thought, moral theory, feminist philosophy

Interests: gestural practices, pragmatics, intersubjectivity, interaction, normativity, multi-modal sense-making, habit, transformation.

Teaching

2010-2012 I taught: WR 121 and WR 122, College Composition I and II

Summer 09 I taught: PHIL 170 Love & Sex.

Summer 08 I taught: PHIL 102: Ethics.