CV

Short CV

Positions

• 2025–2027: Postdoctoral research fellow (MSCA CZ/OP-JAK), MINTLab, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Murcia, Spain
• 2020–current: Assistant professor (odborný asistent), Department of General Linguistics, Palacký University, Czech Republic
• 2018–2020: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of General Linguistics, Palacký University, Czech Republic

Education

• 2016: PhD in semiotics and culture studies, Tartu Ülikool, Estonia (Supervisor: Kalevi Kull)
• 2012: MA in Semiotics, Tartu Ülikool, Estonia (cum laude) (Supervisor: Kalevi Kull)
• 2007: BA in Spanish Linguistics and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Publications

Recent articles and chapters

• Rodríguez Higuera, C. J. (2025). Are there grounded semantics in (model) organisms? BioSystems, 257, 105606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2025.105606
• Rodríguez Higuera, C. J. (2025). The Metaethics of Meaning-Making: Jonathan Birch’s the Edge of Sentience. Biosemiotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-025-09595-0

Please check my ResearchGate page for the rest of my papers!

Selected monographs and edited books

• 2023: Biosocial World: Approaches to Biosemiotics. Edited with Juan R. Coca. University of Valladolid Press.
• 2016: The Place of Semantics in Biosemiotics. Doctoral dissertation (published under University of Tartu Press)

Some of the courses I teach

• Biosemiotics
• Cognitive semiotics
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Creativity
• Cultural semiotics