The philologist Cristobal Pagán Cánovas, a research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, has been appointed as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). The IASH is at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), which, according to the QS World University Ranking that annually publishes The Times, is the most important European campus— and the third most important in the world— in terms of linguistics.

Dr. Pagán will undertake a six-month research stay in spring and summer of 2015 as part of an agreement with the BBVA Foundation, which recently granted him funding of 40,000 euros for his EMOCCC project, which is the first diachronic study of poetic expression of emotion in Greek poetry over 28 centuries, from Homer to the present day. His application was selected as one of 56 among the 1,664 proposals that the foundation received.

This research is framed within Cristobal Pagán's field, which focuses on cognitive linguistics, cognitive poetics, discourse analysis, Greek philology, comparative literature and cognitive science.

In specific, the ICS researcher will undertake his research stay with Professor Douglas Cairns, who leads the project "History of Distributed Cognition" at IASH. This line of research deals with understanding cognition from classical antiquity to the present era.