Cornelia Müller

Cornelia Müller is a Professor at the Chair of Language Use and Multimodal Communication within the Faculty of Cultural Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina. Her research explores the embodied, affective, and dynamic processes of meaning-making in gestures and audiovisual media, with a focus on multimodal metaphor, gestural mimesis, and affective interaction.

• Key Research Areas: Multimodal Communication, Gesture Studies, Embodied Meaning, Metaphor Analysis

Publications & Methods: Müller has developed methodologies for gesture, film, and metaphor analysis. Her recent work includes a textbook on Gesture and Language and studies on affective stance in parliamentary debates. She collaborates transdisciplinarily with film studies and linguistic scholars.

Collaborations & Initiatives: Co-founder of the journal Gesture and book series Gesture Studies, Müller leads projects at the Viadrina Center for Gesture and Multimodality Studies. She organizes workshops with institutions like the University of Basel and hosts international lecture series.

Contact: Located in Room AM 132 at Europa-Universität Viadrina, she can be reached at cmueller@europa-uni.de.