Dr. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt

Dr. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt is a senior researcher in the Research Area 4 'Semantics & Pragmatics' and she has a Marie Curie Fellowship with the project How Language is Used to Oppress (HaLO).

Her main research interests are in philosophy of language and linguistics, meta-ethics, social and political Philosophy, social epistemology, philosophy of race and gender. Her recent work focuses on how slurs and oppressive speech shift social norms, re-entrenching social hierarchies.