Francesca Ervas is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Cagliari. She conducted her research as a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam (2019/2020).

She got her degree in Philosophy from the University of Padova and her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Theory of Human Sciences from the University Roma Tre with a thesis titled "Equivalence in Translation: a philosophical approach." She worked as a research assistant in Philosophy of Language at the University Roma Tre, a Visiting Post-Doc at the Department of Linguistics at University College London, a Post-Doc, and more recently, a Visiting Professor at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the University of Cagliari.

Her research interests include translation theory, metaphor theory, and experimental pragmatics. She currently teaches "Theory of Language and Communication" in the Bachelor's degree program in Communication Sciences and "Pragmatics of Language" in the interclass Master's degree program in Philosophy and Theories of Communication at the University of Cagliari. A detailed curriculum vitae is available below.