Yanna Popova
Yanna B. Popova (DPhil, Oxford) has been educated in the areas of linguistics, literature, and philosophy. She has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Case Western Reserve (USA), where she was a founding member of the Department of Cognitive Science. From 2022 till 2024 she was the Director of the Centre for Research on Culture, Language, and Mind at the University of Warsaw. She is currently a lecturer in Cognitive Science at the Kardynal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. Yanna Popova has published numerous articles in the fields of cognitive linguistics, cognitive poetics, metaphor theory, narratology, and the phenomenology of temporality. Her book Stories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and Enaction was published by Routledge in 2015. She is currently completing a book on theatre performance and enactive cognition.
Last updated on August 18th, 2026