Elin McCready

Elin McCready is an ICREA Research Professor at the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica within the Department of Catalan Philology, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a position she assumed in 2025. Previously, she served as a Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University from 2006, achieving full professorship in 2015 after initial appointment.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2005)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Osaka University

Research Interests: McCready's interdisciplinary scholarship spans formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, aesthetics, social epistemology, and environmental humanities. Her work uniquely integrates game theory with gender studies and literary analysis, emphasizing feminist perspectives in linguistic modeling and artistic research. She investigates how social dynamics shape meaning construction while bridging theoretical linguistics with ecological philosophy.

Scientific Awards:

• No specific awards or fellowships are documented in the provided materials

Advising and Grants: The available documentation contains no explicit references to graduate student supervision, research grants, or funded projects. Her academic focus appears centered on theoretical research within institutional frameworks like ICREA and UAB.

Labs and Teams: McCready operates within the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT), UAB's dedicated theoretical linguistics research unit. The CLT serves as her primary academic base, fostering collaborations across humanities disciplines with emphasis on formal language analysis and philosophical inquiry.