Research
focus
Brockmeier’s
research is concerned with the cultural fabric of mind and
language. A number of his research projects have revolved
around writing and literacy and its psychological,
cultural, and philosophical implications. In a similar key,
he has examined how language, as a form of life and central
dimension of human development, works in specific social
and applied settings. In particular, he has been
investigating narrative as psychological, linguistic, and
cultural form and practice. His main interest here is in
the function of narrative for autobiographical memory,
personal identity, and the understanding of time, issues he
has explored both empirically and philosophically -
empirically, in various languages and sociocultural
contexts, as developmental phenomena, and under conditions
of health and illness; philosophically, in terms of a
narrative hermeneutics.
Brockmeier’s
research has been supported by The Canada Council for the
Arts, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada (SSHRC), The Canadian Institutes of
Health Research (CIHR), The EU Science Programme (Marie
Curie Fellowship), The German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD)/German Foreign Office, The Austrian Foreign
Ministry, The Swedish National Council for Social Research
and Working Life (FAS), The National Research Council of
Italy (CNR), The National Research Council of Brazil
(CNPq), and other academic institutions.