Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Susan Stebbing: One woman's career in philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century, by Invitation (ESRC Workshop on Inclusive Methodology, Manchester, 2019)
- Susan Stebbing and the logic of communication, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn, Germany, 2018)
- "Viennese bombshells": Reactions to Language, Truth and Logic from Ayer's philosophical contemporaries, by Invitation (Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pecs, 2018)
- Susan Stebbing: Early analytic philosophy and present-day linguistics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Society of Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Ireland/In Parenthesis conference, Dublin, 2018)
- Implicature and style in George Moore's "The Lake", by Invitation (Collaborative Research Centre, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany, 2016)
- "The book has begun to read very agreeably": The pragmatics of literary rewriting, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Poetics and Linguistics Association, 2015)
- "Through that baize door": Consciousness and the narrative of otherness in Moore's 'Esther Waters', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Embodiments, University of Liverpool, 2013)
- Pragmatics and Meaning, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Savoirs, Textes, Langage, University of Lille 3, France, 2013)
- 'George Moore's revisions of Ether Waters: A neo-Gricean reading', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (International Poetics and Linguistics Association and French Societe de Stylistique Anglaise, 2012)
- 'Implicature in narative fiction: A neo-Gricean approach to Literary pragmatics', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Sussex, 2012)
- 'Unempirical dogmas': The responses to logical positivism of Arne Naess and J. L. Austin, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Oslo, 2010)
- Arne Naess and Empirical Semantics, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, 2009)
Editorships
- Journal of Pragmatics (Book Reviews Editor, 2018 - present)
- Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (General Editor, 2008 - 2015)
- Open Applied Linguistics Journal (Editorial Board Member, 2008 - 2014)
Examination Roles
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BA (UG, 2014)
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BA (UG, 2013)
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BA (UG, 2012)
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, PhD (2010)
- Aston University, MA (PGT, 2010)
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, PhD (2008)
- University of Nottingham, MA (PGT, 2008)
- University of Nottingham, MRes (PGT, 2007)
- Middlesex University, BSc (UG, 2005)
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MPhil (2004)
- University of Leeds, PhD (2003)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Departmental Director of Postgraduate Research