Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 under the supervision of Josh Dever, Nichoals Asher, and Hans Kamp. She is currently a CFD postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at Centenary College of Louisiana. Before that she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Academia Sincia in Taiwan. Her main research areas are philosophy of language and philosophical linguistics; she also has active interests in areas of philosophy of mind, epistemology, and action theory that overlap with her enthusiasm for language. She has been working on foundational issues in theory of reference, particularly anaphora and definite descriptions, and how a broad range of linguistic data determines the right shape of semantic analysis. Her most recent projects concern attitude reports, intentional identity, dynamic semantics, and the semantics-pragmatics distinction.