Elise Stickles (Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures. She is a cognitive linguist whose research focuses on applications of metaphor analysis and frame semantics to public policy, particularly in the areas of healthcare, climate change, and social inequality. She is currently leading a SSHRC Insight Grant titled Waging metaphorical war: Cross-linguistic analysis of metaphors for cancer, COVID-19, and climate change. This project studies the metaphors used across news media, political speech, and social media to conceptualize cancer, climate change, and COVID-19 in English, French, and Spanish, in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and France. With respect to the climate emergency, Prof. Stickles’ primary goal is to identify communication strategies which accurately convey the urgency and severity of the crisis, without fostering climate doomism and eco-paralysis.