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Alexis Wellwood

Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics
Alexis Wellwood
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email wellwood@usc.edu Office Phone (213) 740-5169

Research & Practice Areas

Semantics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Experimental Philosophy

Center, Institute & Lab Affiliations

  • The Meaning Lab, Director

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Professor of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Psychology, USC, 2023 –
    • Associate Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, USC, 2020 – 2023
    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, USC, 2017 – 2020
    • Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2014 – 2017

  • Research Specialties

    Semantics, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Experimental Philosophy

  • Contracts and Grants Awarded

    • The grammar of number, countability, and measurement, (NSF BCS DDRIG), Alexis Wellwood, Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez, Roumyana Pancheva, $18,378, 2023 – 2025
    • Individuating and comparing objects and events, (NSF BCS), Alexis Wellwood, $462,000, 2017 – 2022
    • Mind and modality, (SSHRC Canada), Alexis Wellwood, $60,000, 2010 – 2012
    • USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2019-2020

  • Administrative Appointments

    • Member of the Dornsife Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure (DCAPT), 08/16/2025 – 08/15/2028
    • Dean’s Leadership Fellow for the Humanities, 08/16/2024 – 08/15/2025
    • Member of the Dornsife Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure (DCAPT), 08/16/2024 – 08/15/2025
    • Deputy Director, 08/16/2022 – 08/15/2025
    • Dean’s Leadership Fellow for the Humanities, 08/16/2023 – 08/15/2024

    Review Panels

    • USC, Curricular review of Dornsife’s Cognitive Science Program, 2018-2019

  • Committees

    • Member, North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) steering committee, 2024 –
    • Chair, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) steering committee, 2019 – 2020
    • Member, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) steering committee, 2016 – 2019
    • Member, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Scholarly Communication in Linguistics committee, 2015 – 2018

    Conferences Organized

    • Director, North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI), USC, 2021 – 2022
    • Chair, Philosophy of Language in Lima, Volume II, Lima, Péru, 2019
    • Member, Event perception and cognition, University of Latvia, 2018
    • Member, Philosophy & Linguistics workshop on the nature, representation, and composition of states, Northwestern University, 2017
    • Chair, Syntax and Semantics Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies, Evanston, IL, 2016
    • Co-Chair, Experimental Pragmatics, Chicago, IL, 2015
    • Member, Mid-Atlantic Colloquium for Studies in Meaning (MACSIM), College Park, MD, 2012
    • Member, Phonology as Symbolic Computation, Montréal, Canada, 2008

    Editorships and Editorial Boards

    • Associate Editor, Journal of Semantics, 2021 –
    • Editorial Board member, Snippets, 2017 –
    • Editorial Board member, Semantics & Pragmatics, 2015 –

    Professional Memberships

    • Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2019 –
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017 –
    • American Philosophical Association (APA), Pacific Division, 2017 –
    • Cognitive Science Society (CSS), 2012 –
    • Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 2009 –
    • Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), 2008 –

    Review Panels

    • Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Major multi-site research grant proposal, 2023-2024
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