Curriculum Vitae

download my CV (current as of Fall 2019)

Education

2016

PhD in Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: The interaction of syntax and metaphor in gesture: A corpus-experimental approach [download pdf]
Committee: Eve Sweetser (chair), Terry Regier, Mahesh Srinivasan (Psychology)

2011

MA in Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley

2009

BA in Language, Cognition, and Computation (Independent) and in Anthropology; correlate in Computer Science 
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)

Publications

Under review

Stickles, Elise; and Ellen Dodge. Corpus-based computational frame and construction review analysis of motion metaphors. In M. Petruck and N. Schneider (Eds.), Computational Semantics with Frames and Constructions.

In press

Lewis, Tasha N.; Kirkhart, Matthew; and Elise Stickles. Patterned iconicity for second language acquisition: Differential effects of gesture type on lexical category. In Brown, A. & Eskildsen, S. W. (Eds), Multimodality across epistemologies in second language research. Routledge.

2022

Kastner, I., Kotek, H., Dockum, R., Dow, M., Esipova, M., Green, C., Snider, T., & Stickles, E. The open letter: Responses and recommendations. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America 7(1). 5257. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5257

2019

Sweetser, Eve; David, Oana; and Elise Stickles. MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domains. In M. Bolognesi, M. Brdar, & K. S. Despot (Eds.), Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.8.02swe

2018

Stickles, Elise; and Tasha N. Lewis. Wednesday’s meeting really is on Friday: A meta-analysis and evaluation of ambiguous spatiotemporal language. Cognitive Science 42(3), 1015-1025. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12559

2017

Lewis, Tasha N., and Elise Stickles. Gestural modality and addressee perspective influence how we reason about time. Cognitive Linguistics 28(1), 45-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2015-0137

Dodge, Ellen; Trott, Sean; Gilardi, Luca; and Elise Stickles. Grammar scaling: Leveraging FrameNet data to increase Embodied Construction Grammar coverage. The AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding Technical Report SS-17-02. 154-162. AAAI

2016

Stickles, Elise; Dodge, Ellen; David, Oana; and Jisup Hong. Formalizing contemporary conceptual metaphor theory: A structured repository for metaphor analysis. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 166-213. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.03sti

David, Oana; Lakoff, George; and Elise Stickles. Cascades in metaphor and grammar: A case study of metaphors in the gun debate. Constructions and Frames 8(2), 214-253. https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.8.2.04dav

Stickles, Elise; David, Oana; and Eve Sweetser. Grammatical constructions, frame structure, and metonymy: Their contributions to metaphor computation. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) 2015. 317-345.

2015

Dodge, Ellen; Hong, Jisup; and Elise Stickles. MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis. In E. Shutova, B. B. Klebanov, & P. Lichtenstein (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Metaphor in NLP (pp. 40-49). NAACL HLT 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/W15-1405

2013

Focus Constructions in ASL: Evidence from Pseudoclefting and Doubling. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 19(1), 207-216. [UPenn]

Cathcart, Chundra; Chen, I-Hsuan; Finley, Greg; Kang, Shinae; Sandy, Clare S.; and Elise Stickles, eds. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS). [access journal]

2009

Doorly, N; Irving, K; McArthur, G; Combie, K; Engel, V; Sakhtah, H; Stickles, E; Rosenblum, H; Gutierrez, A; Root, R; Liew, C-W; and JH Long, Jr. (2009). Biomimetic Evolutionary Analysis: Robotically-simulated Vertebrates in a Predator-Prey Ecology. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 147-154. https://doi.org/10.1109/ALIFE.2009.4937706

Presentations and Posters

2023

Grogan, Kim; and Elise Stickles. (2023, 7-11 August). Climate change: a constructional approach. Paper presented at the 16th Meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Moar, Sarah; and Elise Stickles. (2023, 7-11 August). ‘it semed to be sumthing’: Constructing Salem’s Witnesses’ Seem-Construct-i-con. Paper presented at the 16th Meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Moar, Sarah; Bonnefille, Stéphanie; Sweetser, Eve; and Elise Stickles. (2023, 7-11 August). Building the French-language MetaNet Wiki: A collaborative online resource for metaphor and image schema analysis en français. Paper presented at the 16th Meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Johnstone, Caitlin; Browning, Celeste; and Elise Stickles. (2023, 28-30 June). Diffusing the time bomb – Differential impacts of metaphor on climate doomism. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor 16, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Stickles, Elise; Arrieta-Zamudio. Ana; Lozano, Inés; Olavarría, Yorka; and Rodolfo Ortiz. (2023, 28-30 June). ¿El virus del dragón o un pequeño covicho?: Variation and change in COVID-19 metaphors across varieties of Spanish”. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor 16, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

2022

Stickles, Elise; Laparle, Schuyler; Browning, Celeste; Du, Vivian; Jones, Kelly; Lahouli; Med Amine; Lozano, Inés; and Eve Sweetser. (2022, September 21). Challenges for multilingual metaphor corpora: Methods and guiding principles. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland.

Laparle, Schuyler; Stickles, Elise; Sweetser, Eve; and Bryce Wallace. (2022, September 21). Moral framing and pandemic metaphors. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland.

Browning, Celeste; and Elise Stickles. (2022, September 21). Microvariation in inner circle Englishes: COVID-19 metaphors in Canadian and American English. Paper presented at Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. Bialystok, Poland.

Kastner, I., Kotek, H., Dockum, R., Dow, M., Esipova, M., Green, C., Snider, T., & Stickles, E. (2022). The open letter: Responses and recommendations. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Washington, DC. January 7, 2022.

2021

Krause, C., Farsani, D., Stickles, E., & Sweetser, E. (2021). Mode-switching while code-switching: An exploration of bilinguals’ use of gestures when using two languages. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC6), City University of Hong Kong. June 5, 2021.

2019

Stickles, Elise, Lewis, Tasha, and Matthew Kirkhart. Paper presented at the 15th meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 15), Nishinomya, Japan. August 9, 2019.

2018

Stickles, Elise, and Ellen Dodge. Mapping it all out: Delineating the role of metaphors and frames in a constructional approach. Paper presented at Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, Helsinki, Finland. August 25, 2018.

Dodge, Ellen, Luca, Gilardi, and Elise Stickles. Re-thinking frames from a constructional perspective. Paper presented at Constructional semantics: Cognitive, functional and typological approaches, Helsinki, Finland. August 25, 2018.

2017

Dodge, Ellen, and Elise Stickles. Analyzing metaphoric source-domain language in corpora: A MetaNet approach. Paper presented at the 14th meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 14), Tartu, Estonia. July 13, 2017.

Stickles, Elise. An experimental approach to multimodal metaphoric utterances. Paper presented at the 14th meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 14), Tartu, Estonia. July 13, 2017.

Dodge, Ellen, Trott, Sean, Gilardi, Luca, and Elise Stickles. Grammar scaling: Leveraging FrameNet data to increase Embodied Construction Grammar coverage. Paper presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding, Stanford, California. March 27, 2017.

2016

Stickles, Elise and Ellen Dodge. A computationally-aided frame and construction-based analysis of motion metaphors in corpora. Paper presented at the 9th meeting of the International Conference on Construction Grammar, Juiz de Fora, Brazil. October 6, 2016.

Stickles, Elise. A multimodal Embodied Construction Grammar approach to image schematic structure in metaphoric gesture. Paper presented at at the 7th meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 7), Paris, France. July 22, 2016.

Stickles, Elise, and Ellen Dodge. Literal vs. figurative language use affects the frequency of syntactic patterns. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C. January 7, 2016.

2015

Stickles, Elise, and Tasha N Lewis. The effects of stimulus modality on interpretation of ambiguous temporal metaphors. Paper presented at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 13), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. July 22, 2015.

David, Oana, Dodge, Ellen, Stickles, Elise, and Jisup Hong. Metonymy, metaphors and constructions in a corpus-based Embodied Construction Grammar framework. Paper presented at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 13), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. July 24, 2015.

Dodge, Ellen, Hong, Jisup, and Elise Stickles. MetaNet: Deep semantic automatic metaphor analysis. Paper presented at the 3rd Workshop on Metaphor in NLP, NAACL HLT 2015. Denver, CO. June 5, 2015.

2014

Stickles, Elise, David, Oana, and Eve Sweetser. Frame role type constraints and frame metonymy in metaphoric interpretation. Poster presented at the 11th meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS 11), Albuquerque, NM. November 14, 2014.

Stickles, Elise Dodge, Ellen and Jisup Hong. A construction-driven, MetaNet-based approach to metaphor extraction and corpus analysis. Paper presented at the 12th meeting of Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL 12), Santa Barbara, CA. November 7, 2014.

Dodge, Ellen, David, Oana, Stickles, Elise, and Eve Sweetser. Constructions and Metaphor: Integrating MetaNet and Embodied Construction Grammar. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG 8), Osnabrück, Germany. September 4, 2014.

David, Oana, Dodge, Ellen, Hong, Jisup, Stickles, Elise, and Eve Sweetser. Building the MetaNet metaphor repository: The natural symbiosis of metaphor analysis and construction grammar. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG 8), Osnabrück, Germany. September 4, 2014.

The relation of color naming and the environment. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Canada. July 26, 2014.

Lewis, Tasha N., and Elise Stickles. Does physical co-presence mediate the effects of gesture on spatiotemporal metaphor?: Gestural priming in virtual discourse space. Paper presented at the 6th meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 6), San Diego, CA. July 11, 2014.

Semantic change in the visual-spatial modality: Evidence from cross-linguistic body-part naming. Paper presented at the 6th meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 6), San Diego, CA. July 8, 2014.

2013

Dodge, Ellen, Hong, Jisup, Stickles, Elise, and Oana David. The MetaNet Wiki: A collaborative online resource for metaphor and image schema analysis. Paper presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 12), Edmonton, AB. June 26, 2013.

Stickles, Elise, and Tasha N. Lewis. Can viewpoint and gesture prime spatiotemporal metaphor use?: The function of gestural metaphoric iconicity in resolving linguistic ambiguity. Paper presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 12), Edmonton, AB. June 25, 2013.

Hong, Jisup, Stickles, Elise, and Ellen Dodge. The MetaNet metaphor repository: Formalized representation and analysis of conceptual metaphor networks. Paper presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 12), Edmonton, AB. June 24, 2013.

2012

Focus Constructions in ASL: Evidence from Pseudoclefting and Doubling. Paper presented at the 36th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. March 24, 2012.

2010

Metaphors in the Modals: ASL Modals and Mental Spaces. Paper presented at the 4th meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 4), Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. July 26, 2010.

Department Presentations

2021

Stickles, Elise. An Epidemic of Poverty, A Tsunami of Cases, and an Onslaught of Disease: The Metaphoric Construal of Social Issues as Physical Harm. Plenary speaker, UBC Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference. February 13, 2021.

2020

Stickles, Elise. Usage-based approaches to metaphor analysis and construction grammar. Invited talk, UBC Linguistics Colloquium. October 2, 2020.

2018

Stickles, Elise, Lewis, Tasha N., and Matthew W. Kirkhart. The effects of mental imagery and spatial reasoning skills on gesture production. The UC Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group. April 6, 2018.

2017

An experimental approach to metaphoric gesture. Presentation and Workshop at the UC Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group. March 10, 2017.

2016

Dodge, Ellen, Stickles, Elise, and Oana David. Computationally-aided deep analysis of cancer metaphors in web-based text. Talk presented at Workshop on Metaphor in Cancer Discourse, UC Berkeley. April 30, 2016.

A corpus approach to grammar and metaphoric gesture. Presentation and Workshop at the UC Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group. April 1, 2016.

2015

Image schemas in metaphoric path and manner gestures. Presentation and Workshop at the UC Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group. November 13, 2015.

2013

Stickles, Elise, and Tasha N. Lewis. Metaphoric gesture primes spatiotemporal metaphor use. Paper presented at the Stanford-Berkeley Talks, Stanford, CA. June 7, 2013.

2012

Defining Co-Presence: The Source for Higher Gesture Rate in Face-to-Face Communication? (EMCL 2012 Report). Presentation and Workshop at the UC Berkeley Gesture Group. September 28, 2012.

2010

Modality in American Sign Language. Presentation and Workshop at the UC Berkeley Gesture Group. May 7, 2010.

Wh-Movement in ASL: Visual Feature Checking. Paper presented at UC Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle. March 19, 2010.

Teaching & Work Experience: Stanford University

2016-2019

Postdoctoral Fellow, Thinking Matters Program
Team-teaching of interdisciplinary first year undergraduate critical thinking seminars

Courses taught:

  • Breaking Codes, Finding Patterns
  • Food Talks: The Language of Food
  • Why So Few? Gender and Diversity in Leadership
  • 100,000 Years of War
  • Worlds of Sound: Learning to Listen

Summer 2018, 2019

Instructor, Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Institute

Teaching & Work Experience: UC Berkeley

2012-2015

Graduate Student Researcher, MetaNet project

2010-2015

Graduate Student Instructor

Courses taught:

  • Introduction to Cognitive Science
  • Gesture, Cognition, and Culture
  • Endangered Languages: What We Lose when a Language Dies
  • Training for New Linguistics Teaching Assistants
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Introduction to Linguistic Science
  • The Mind and Language
  • Metaphor

2010

Graduate Student Researcher, Up! Project (longitudinal psycholinguistics corpus development)

Professional Activities & Service

2017-2019

Pre-Major Advisor
Stanford University

2015-2016

Social Sciences Matrix Seminar Metaphor: Across Datasets and Methodologies

2013-2016

Mentor
UC Berkeley Linguistics Research Apprenticeship Program
Mentor/research advisor to undergraduate research assistants/undergraduate research projects

2013-2016

Founding Co-Organizer, UC Berkeley Linguistics CogNetwork

2010-2011

Executive CommitteeBerkeley Linguistics Society

Publication Peer Review

Cognitive LinguisticsCognitive ScienceGesture

Academic Society Membership

  • Linguistic Society of America
  • International Society for Gesture Studies
  • International Cognitive Linguistics Association
  • Cognitive Science Society

Summer Schools & Additional Education

2012

Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6
Hosted by Case Western University, Cleveland, OH

2009-2012

Coursework in American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Studies
Berkeley City College

2009

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Hosted by University of California, Berkeley