Susan Petrilli, 7th Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy, and Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, Australia. Her principal research areas include Philosophy of Language, Semiotics, General Linguistics, Translation Theory, Identity Studies, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies.With co-author Augusto Ponzio she has introduced the seminal concept of “semioethics”. She directs several book series and sits on the editorial board of many international scientific journals. She has acted as International Visiting Professor at various universities worldwide including in Australia, China, Brazil, USA, Canada, South Africa, and across Europe. As translator and editor she has promoted the works of Victoria Welby, Charles S. Peirce, Charles Morris, Mikhail Bakhtin, Thomas Szasz, Thomas A. Sebeok, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Augusto Ponzio. She publishes regularly in English and Italian, having authored over fifty monographs and translated and edited just as many. In addition to English and Italian some of her books have been translated into French, Serbian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese.

Her most recent books include The Self as a Sign, the World and the Other (2013), Em outro lugar e de outro modo. Filosofia da linguagem, crítica literária e teoria da tradução em, em torno e a partir de Bakhtin (2013), Sign Studies and Semioethics. Communication, Translation and Values (2014), Riflessioni sulla teoria del linguaggio e dei segni (2014), Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (2015), Nella vita dei segni. Percorsi della semiotica (2015), (in collab. with A. Ponzio) Semioetica e comunicazione globale (2014) and Lineamenti di semiotica e di filosofia del linguaggio. Contributo all’interpretazione e all’ascolto della parola (2016), and lastly The Global World and Its Manifold Faces. Otherness as the Basis of Communication (2016). Some of her books are now available in Chinese translation. With Augusto Ponzio she directs several book series and has just founded the new series “Reflections on Signs and Language,” Peter Lang (2016), Challenges to Living Together. Transculturalism, Migration, Exploitation (2017), Digressioni nella storia. Dal tempo del sogno al tempo della globalizzazione (2017).

Email: [email protected]; website: www.susanpetrilli.com