Alexis Wellwood, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics
Email: wellwood@usc.edu
Alexis is interested in the nature of word and sentence meaning, and in how language understanding relates to other things that minds do. She became a member of the faculty in the Dornsife School of Philosophy in the Fall of 2017, and was awarded tenure in 2020. In 2019, she was one of three recipients of the Albert S. Raubenheimer award for Outstanding Junior Faculty in USC’s Dornsife College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences. She now serves as Deputy Director of the USC School of Philosophy. Before coming to USC, she was faculty in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University, where she also created and directed the Child Language Development Laboratory (ChiLDlab). Her first book, The Meaning of More, was published in 2019 by Oxford University Press.
