Senior lecturer (førstelektor), English section, ILOS (the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages) at the University of Oslo, and an affiliate of CSMN, IFIKK, University of Oslo.

Research interests include: Pragmatics; inference, reasoning and rationality; metarepresentation; semantics of natural languages; Relevance Theory; ad hoc concepts; legal language and interpretation; philosophy of linguistics, particularly of ‘cognitively realistic’ approaches such as generative grammar and relevance theory.