Elin McCready#
| Membership Number: | 7478 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/3804/elin-mccready/ |
| ORCID: | 0009-0005-3338-9336 |
| Publication Link: | https://sites.google.com/site/esmccready/publications?authuser=0 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - present Research Professor. Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Centre de Lingüística Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 2015 - 2024 Professor (Kyōju) [tenured]]. Department of English Language and Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University.
- 2018 - 2021 Head, Singularity Research Institute, Aoyama Gakuin University
- 2015 - 2018 Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- 2015 - 2016 Visiting Fellow, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
- 2008 - 2015 Associate Professor (Junkyōju) [tenured]]. Department of English Language and Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University.
- 2006 - 2008 Assistant Professor (Kōshi). Department of English Language and Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University
- 2005 - 2006 Postdoctoral Researcher. Department of Language and Information Science, Osaka University/Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Philosophy of language
- Formal pragmatics
- Formal semantics
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2029 Mercator Fellow, CRC 1412 ‘Register,’ Humboldt University
- 2024 - 2026 Mercator Fellow, Emmy Noether Research Group on ‘Socially Relevant Pragmatic Inference’. Tübingen University
- 2020 Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (award: 45,000 euros)
- 2017 Aoyama Gakuin University Research Excellence Prize
