Diana E. Popa, PhD

Diana E. Popa is a linguist and semiotician whose work explores how humans and environments co-create meaning. She teaches at the University of Vermont, where her research bridges pragma-semiotics, multimodal communication, and ecological storytelling. Her current projects draw on biosemiotics and cultural heritage studies to examine how signs (linguistic, visual, embodied, environmental) shape communication across species and landscapes.

 

She is an affiliate of the Gund Institute for Environment and contributes to interdisciplinary projects focused on narrative landscapes, seasonal knowledge, and more-than-human communication.