Current Teaching

Hampshire College

• Semantics (Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)
• Philosophy of Language (Spring 2020)
• Language, Space and the Absurd (co-taught with Amy Halliday; Fall 2019)
• Thinking Through Fictional Worlds: The Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Linguistics of Imagination & Narrative (Fall 2019)
• Endangered narratives (co-taught with Polina Barskova; Spring 2019) 
• Translation, ambiguity and discourse (in)coherence (Spring 2019)
• Life and death: Conversations and questions across disciplines (co-taught with Pamela Stone; Spring 2018) 
• Foreign Accent (Fall 2017)
• Pragmatics (Fall 2017)
• Narrative discourse (Spring 2017)
• Universal Grammar (Fall 2016)
• The hidden power of form in language and media (co-taught with Jim Miller; Fall 2016)
• Forms of address in linguistics and literature  (co-taught with Polina Barskova; Spring 2016) 
• Discovering rules in an extinct language: Sound patterns in Osage  (Fall 2015) 
• Research seminar in linguistics & philosophy: Performative utterances (Fall 2015)
• Literature & Cognition (Spring 2011) 
• Discovering the Rules of Language (Fall 2010) 

UMass, Amherst

• Integration and Innovation (Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration Program (BDIC); Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
• Topics in Semantics: Anaphora, Stativity and Indexicality (Graduate Seminar; Spring 2017) 

Heinrich Heine University

• Introduction to Semantics (Summer 2015)
• Changing reality through language: Semantics and pragmatics of performatives (MA-level seminar in semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language; Winter 2014/2015)
• The Language of Suicidal Notes (Winter 2014/2015) 
• Structure of Siouan Languages (co-taught with Robert Van Valin; Summer 2014)
• Introduction to Semantics (Summer 2014)
• Time, Modality and Consequence (Winter 2013/2014) 
• Speaking of events (co-taught with Hana Filip; Summer 2013)
• Linguistics in Forensics and Advertising (Summer 2013)
• Philosophy and Linguistics of Literature (Summer 2013)
• Aspect: From Verb to Discourse (co-taught with Hana Filip; Winter 2012/2013)
• Literature & Cognition (Winter 2012/2013) 

Swarthmore, Haverford,  Bryn Mawr

• Introduction to Syntax (Spring 2012)
• Literature & Cognition (Spring 2012);
• Phonetics and Phonology (Spring 2012)
• Field Methods (Fall 2011) 
• Introduction to Linguistics (Fall 2011) 

LOT 2025

• Discourse interpretation; Slides

LSA 2023

• Discourse interpretation (co-taught with Julian J. Schlöder)

ESSLLI 2022 

• Coordination: Syntax, Semantics, Discourse (co-taught with Robert Truswell); Slides

ESSLLI 2019 

• Anaphora and Ambiguity in Narratives (co-taught with Julian J. Schlöder); Slides

NYI 2018, 2021   

• Introduction to formal semantics 

ESSLLI 2017 

• Underlying States (co-taught with Roger Schwarzschild) 

NASSLLI 2016 

• Anaphora & coherence workshop (co-organized with Sam Cumming)    

DGfS SUMMER SCHOOL 2016 @ SFB 833

• Temporal Interpretation of Narrative Discourse: Exploring the Interaction between Prominence and Coherence 

ESSLLI 2013

• Aspect: From Verb to Discourse (co-taught with Hana Filip) 

EGG 2011

• Aspectual and adverbial meaning in natural language discourse
• Non-literal meaning