The CogLit Project is led by Dr Patricia Kolaiti.

Patricia holds a PhD from UCL. She was Associate Researcher with the Balzan project on ‘Literature as an Object of Knowledge’ based at St John’s College Research Centre, Oxford. Her first monograph The Limits of Expression: Language, Literature, Mind is expected to come out in March 2019 by Cambridge University Press. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher at UCL, The University of Middlesex, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and New York College, Athens.

Patriciais also a published poet and performer with a strong presence in the contemporary Greek literary scene: her collection Celesteia was nominated for the 2008 First Book Diavazo Award in Greece.