Elena’s overarching research interest lies in defending the enduring relevance of phenomenology to contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Her doctoral research is aimed at giving a phenomenological account of altered self-, time- and norm-consciousness in flow states. She also works on the phenomenology of well-being, and is starting a project on the phenomenology of algorithmically-mediated self-constitution. She has presented her work at multiple national and international, specialized and generalist philosophy conferences. She has taught several philosophy courses at UBC and is currently a continuing instructor at Camosun college, Victoria.

Her most recent publication, “Action in Unison: A Phenomenological Account of Collective Agency in Group Flow States,” has been published online in the European Journal of Philosophy and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.70115