Francesca Ervas is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Cagliari. From July 1, 2024, she is Coordinator of the BA Program in Communication Science at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Cagliari.

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 at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the University of Cagliari. She conducted her research as a Visiting Professor at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and as a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam. Her research interests include figurative language, experimental pragmatics, theory of reasoning and argumentation, translation theory.