Misogyny. My current research focuses on misogynistic speech, whether it differs from other hate speech, how it relates to the research in masculinities, the differences and similarities between online and offline misogyny, etc. You can read more about the project here.
Hate Speech. From 2023-2025, I was a postdoc working on the Rebuilding Trust in Public Discourse: The Good Speech Project (PI: Mihaela Popa-Wyatt). We explored the mechanics of hate speech, e.g., how derogatory words and taboo speech can revise social roles, slurs as compensatory mechanisms for manhood acts, how different hierarchies function on incel forums.
Incel Research. I was a CO-I of two interdisciplinary seedcorn projects (2022/23 and 2023/24, funded by the Centre for Digital Trust and Society at the University of Manchester) wherein we explored linguistic phenomena of incel forums located in the manosphere. Part of our investigation entailed understanding how language reinforces the incel ideology and what we can glean about the social roles incels give to themselves and others.
Slurs and Gender Terms: I developed an Expressive-Property Contextualist view on slurs. I am currently working on a co-authored piece about gender terms, relativism and retraction.
Expressive-Relativism, Predicates of Personal Taste and Expressives. In my thesis, I defended a novel view which combined expressivist and relativist semantics for predicates of personal taste and expressive terms. I have also written papers on expressive terms in predictive positions, faultless disagreement and relativism; expressives and relativism; against contextualism for predicates of personal taste; and expressive and descriptive ineffability.
I completed my PhD in 2022, which was funded by the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. I was supervised by Graham Stevens and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, and examined by Stefano Predelli and Dan Zeman. After my PhD, I was a Teaching Associate at the University of Manchester before becoming a postdoc.