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Susan Petrilli

Susan Petrilli was born in Adelaide, but lives and works in Bari, Italy.

She teaches Semiotics and Philosophy of Language at the Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis, Bari University. She is a member of the advisory board for the Ph.D. programme in Language Theory and Sign Science run at the same Department.
Her research focuses on general sign theory, significs, theory of meaning, language, and communication, translation theory and women's studies. She has authored the following volumes; Significs, semiotica e significazione, Adriatica, 1988; Materia segnica e interpretazione, Milella, 1995; Che cosa significa significare?, Edizioni dal Sud, 1996; Su Victoria Welby. Significs e filosofia del linguaggio, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1998; Teoria dei segni e del linguaggio, Graphis-Laterza, 1998; and with Augusto Ponzio: Mas as a sign, Mouton De Gruyter, 1990; Signs, dialogue and ideology, Benjamins, 1993; La ricerca semiotica, Esculapio, 1993; Fondamenti di filosofia del linguaggio, Laterza, 1994; Basi. Significare, inventare, dialogare, Manni, 1998; Signs of research on signs for the journal Semiotische Berichte, 1998; Fuori campo, Mimesis, 1999; Inoperosità della politica, Castelvecchi, 1999; Il sentire della comunicazione globale, Meltemi, 2000.

She has edited the volume Between signs and non-signs, by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Benjamins, 1992; a special issue of the Italian journal Il Protagora, 1987, dedicated to Rossi-Landi; and for Semiotica, journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the special issues The correspondence between Morris and Rossi-Landi, 1992; and Semiotics in the United States and beyond. Problems, people, and perspectives, 1993; for the same journal she is currently editing an issue entitled Signs and Light. Illuminating Paths in the Sign Network, forthcoming; as well as the monograhic issue Introduction to Victoria Welby's significs, through a selection of her writings presented and commented by Susan Petrilli. For the journal Athanor. Arte, letteratura, semiotica, filosofia, she has edited the special issues Nero, IX, 1, 1998, La traduzione, X, 2, 1999-2000 and Tra segni, XI, 3, 2000.

She has also edited a special issue of S - European journal for semiotic studies, entitled Semiotics studies in Bari, vol. 11-4, 1999.

In collaboration with Augusto Ponzio and Cosimo Caputo she directs the book series "Di-segno-in-segno", Manni, Lecce.

As part of her activity as translator she has translated into Italian and edited the works of Victoria Welby, Charles Morris and Thomas A. Sebeok, contributing to their diffusion in Italy.

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