Welcome
I teach and supervise students in the areas of semantics and pragmatics. Teaching resources for BA, MPhil and DPhil students can be found below.
If you are interested in applying to work with me on your doctorate, please get in touch via email before you plan to submit an application.
Current Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
- Prelims Course in Semantics & Pragmatics (HT weeks 1-4)
- FHS Course in Semantics & Pragmatics (HT weeks 1-8)
Graduate Courses
- Foundation Course in Semantics & Pragmatics (MT weeks 1-8)
- Advance Course in Semantics & Pragmatics (HT weeks 1-8)
- Semantics & Pragmatics Seminar (TT weeks 1-7)
Resources
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College
Reading Lists
Prior Teaching
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Anaphora and Ambiguity in Narratives (co-taught with Julian Schlöder); Slides
- Introduction to formal semantics
- Underlying States (co-taught with Roger Schwarzschild)
- Anaphora & coherence workshop (co-organized with Sam Cumming)
- Aspect: From Verb to Discourse (co-taught with Hana Filip)
DGfS SUMMER SCHOOL 2016 @ SFB 833
- Temporal Interpretation of Narrative Discourse: Exploring the Interaction between Prominence and Coherence
