CONTRIBUTOR:

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Marie Curie Fellow

DEPARTMENT:

Semantics/Pragmatics FB4

INSTITUTION:

Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin

BIOGRAPHY:

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt is a Marie Curie Fellow (2019-2021) at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin. Her research is in Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Meta-ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Social Epistemology, and Philosophy of Race and Gender. She earned her doctorate, Summa Cum Laude, in Philosophy of Language from the University of Geneva (2009) as well as two MAs in Linguistics from Geneva (2001) and Bucharest (2000). She was previously a research fellow at the University of Birmingham (2010-2015 and 2017-2018), and a Beatriu de Piños Fellow at the LOGOS Centre, Universität Barcelona (2014-2016). Her recent work focuses on how slurs and oppressive speech shift social norms and re-entrench social hierarchies. She is currently using game-theoretic tools to explore the increased spread of hate speech and the corrosive effect on norms of decency and fairness. For more information, visit https://mihaelapopawyatt.wordpress.com/ and https://www.leibniz-zas.de/de/personen/details/popa-wyatt-mihaela/mihaela-popa-wyatt/.