Rate My Professor Nellie Wieland

Nellie Wieland is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. Her areas of specialization, as listed on the department faculty page, include Philosophy of Fiction, Applied Metaphysics (especially Agency), Social Philosophy, and Philosophy of Language. Wieland's research interests are distributed between the philosophy of language and normative matters. She writes about quotation and reporting practices, the metaphysics of language and linguistic entities, pragmatics, and silencing. Her work also covers the obligations of parents to care for their children, autonomy, agency, and objectification. More recently, she has focused on fiction and the work of J.L. Austin, including linguistic phenomena in fictional contexts and the use of fiction in ordinary speech. She describes her research as including the philosophy of language, atypical agency, and the intersection of language and agency with social phenomena, such as the authority of pornographers, context-sensitive language, pragmatic theory, theories of quotation and indirect reports, and the history of speech act theory.

Wieland has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Notable publications include “Escaping Fiction” in the Croatian Journal of Philosophy (2023), “Metalinguistic Acts in Fiction” in The Language of Fiction edited by Emar Maier and Andreas Stokke (Oxford University Press, 2021), “The Abnegated Self” in Tales of Good Character: Virtue, Narrative, and Agency edited by Joe Ulatowski and Liezl van Zyl (Routledge, 2020), "Agent and Object" in Social Theory and Practice (2017), “Reporting Practices and Reported Entities” and “Indirect Reports and Pragmatics” in volumes edited by Alessandro Capone et al. (Springer, 2015 and 2013), “Parental Obligation” in Utilitas (2011), “Context Sensitivity and Indirect Reports” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2010), “Minimal Propositions and Real World Utterances” in Philosophical Studies (2010), and “Linguistic Authority and Convention in a Speech Act Analysis of Pornography” in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2007). She has delivered invited talks and colloquia at institutions including UC Irvine, University of Waikato, Uppsala University, UC San Diego, University of Oslo, and the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meetings. Her office is located in MHB-906.