My research is grounded in cognitive linguistic approaches to language and communication. I focus on the use of metaphor in relation to climate change, primarily in news media and environmental activist campaigns, as well as in poetry that represents ecological crisis. My dissertation examines metaphors in both textual and multimodal (image-text) communication, with an eye towards the ways in which context, political affiliation, belief and intent shape what types of metaphors are deployed. I’m interested in how figuration is a means of expressing ideological leanings and certain viewpoints on climate change, and how inferences made available as a result of metaphor can influence conceptualization of climate change and climate change related entities and concepts.