Teaching

Lecturing

Lecturer, Semantics and Pragmatics (TAL Tripos and MPhil, MMLL), University of Cambridge — Michaelmas Term 2025

Delivered a full lecture series for undergraduate and MPhil students covering truth-conditional semantics, Gricean pragmatics, relevance theory, and the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Small Group Teaching

Undergraduate Supervisor, University of Cambridge — 2022–present

Four years of small-group supervision (2–6 students per group) across multiple Cambridge colleges. Provided detailed written and oral feedback on weekly essays; adapted teaching to students at widely varying levels of prior knowledge; worked consistently with Student Support Documents. Identified a structural problem in supervision group organisation and successfully advocated for a change in departmental practice.

Papers supervised:

• Li2: Structures and Meanings (Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics)
• Li10: Semantics and Pragmatics (Advanced Semantics and Pragmatics)
• Li4: History and Varieties of English (Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics)

Dissertation and Project Supervision

Dissertation Supervisor, University of Cambridge — 2024–present

Supervised extended independent research projects in semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Dissertation supervision at Cambridge is typically reserved for more senior academic staff.

• “The Flirting Game: A pragmatic analysis of collaborative meaning negotiation in flirting interactions.” — High first-class mark (2024–25).

Project Supervisor, University of Cambridge

Supervised student research projects across multiple schemes:

• Pembroke Cambridge Summer Programme: “Cross-cultural construction of death: A multimodal contrastive study of obituary discourse in Chinese and American media.”
• Foundation Year Programme: “Tag questions, interrogatives and gender: linguistic weakness or conversational strategy?”