RSC 2024 Fellow: Barbara Dancygier

Barbara Dancygier has chin-length dark red hair and blue eyes, she is wearing round glasses. She is resting her chin on her knuckles and smiling softly to the camera.

Dr. Barbara Dancygier is one of fifteen UBC faculty members announced by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) as new Fellows and Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in September 2024. Fellows and College Members are officially inducted into the RSC at the annual Celebration of Excellence and Engagement in November. 

Barbara Dancygier is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia, and past President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. Her research interests lie in cognitive linguistics and poetics, focusing on multimodal communication, linguistic constructions, and post-truth phenomena in public communication. She has published monographs, textbooks, edited volumes, and numerous research articles. Her monograph on internet memes will appear in 2025.

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