Hazel Pearson

Hazel Pearson is an Associate Professor and Reader in Formal Semantics at Queen Mary University of London, within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Department of Linguistics. She holds a PhD from Harvard University and has held prior research positions at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin. Her research focuses on formal semantics, pragmatics, and cross-linguistic semantics, with special attention to attitude reports, perspective, de se expressions, and the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics.

Dr. Pearson’s work also explores topics such as presupposition, implicature, and the semantics of comparatives. She is an Associate Editor of Semantics and Pragmatics and a former Co-Editor of Linguistic Inquiry Squibs and Discussion. She currently serves as Convenor of the MA in Linguistics at Queen Mary. Her recent publications include studies on de se/de re partitioning and stage-level predicates of personal taste, as well as collaborative work with Tom Roeper in Inquiry.

She has presented at conferences such as the Workshop on Perspectival Plurality (Warsaw, 2022) and Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (2023), and co-edited the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25. Her research methodology integrates cross-linguistic data and formal semantic frameworks to address core questions in the philosophy and psychology of language.