Dr Kolaiti Patricia

Dr Patricia Kolaiti is a front-line interdisciplinary scholar with a PhD in Linguistics from UCL, endorsed by the British Academy in 2021 as ‘Global Talent / Emerging Leader’. She has a wide theoretical background across Linguistics, Literary study and the Cognitive Sciences. In 2017 she was awarded the Seal of Excellence of the European Commission for Innovation in Research and has participated in cutting-edge research projects (e.g. Balzan Project ‘Literature as a Cognitive Object’, University of Oxford; AHRC project ‘A Unified Theory of Lexical Pragmatics’, UCL; BLAST project, University of Brighton). Between 2018-2020 she led the groundbreaking research programme ‘CogLit’ at the University of Brighton, funded by Horizon 2020, European Commission. She is the author of the theoretical books: ‘The Limits of Expression: Language, Literature, Mind’ (Cambridge University Press 2019), ‘Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: from a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action’ (Cambridge University Press 2023, forthcoming) and ‘The Composite Organism’ (Cambridge University Press, contracted). Patricia is also a passionate educator with a commitment for pedagogical innovation in Higher Education settings: she aims at strengthening the links between academia and real life, has designed innovative modules and implemented novel methods of interactive teaching that deliver optimal learning experience.