A Marie Sklodowska-Curie researcher for the VAMP project at the University of Bologna since 2023, I carry out my research in the field of the semiotics of controversies. My research interests are particularly directed towards ecological controversies as a key to interpreting the Anthropocene, memory and the formation of collective identities, and semiotic theory and epistemology. Currently, I am mainly interested in the processes of inclusion/exclusion of non-humans in political debate, the contestation of large-scale infrastructure projects and extractivist interpretation of the environment.
Education
Graduated in Semiotics in 2014 from the Department of Communicazoine of the University of Bologna, I pursued my PhD in Language Sciences - Semiotics at the University of Toulouse 2 in 2019, with a thesis entitled Les nouvelles frontières du développement: l'idéologie durable. Une analyse sémiotique des textes onusiens. In 2022, I obtained a second doctorate in Cultural Heritage at the University of Palermo, with a thesis entitled Critique of the Anti-Mafia. Rhetorics, narratives, values.
Academic career
In 2019, I qualified as a Maître de Conférence at the French Conseil National de la Recherche in the disciplinary sections of Language Sciences (07) and Romance Studies (14), and in 2024 also that of the section of Information and Communication (71). In 2022-2023, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Semiotics and Design at the Projekt Research Unit, at the University of Nîmes. Since 1 October 2023, I have been Research Fellow at the FILO department of the University of Bologna, in the framework of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship; since 1 October 2024, I have been Research Fellow in Tenure Track (RTT) at the same department.
Teaching activities
Since 2015, I have been continuously teaching Communication, Text Semiotics, General Semiotics, Italian Language and Literature, Gastronomy Semiotics, Media Semiotics, Cultural Heritage Semiotics for Undergraduate and Master's degree courses at the Universities of Bologna, Toulouse and Palermo. From 2015 to 2017, he was Reader at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Toulouse 2. From 2015 to 2019, he was Adjunct Professor at the Department of Language Sciences at the same university. From 2020 to 2022, I was Tutor of Sociolinguistics and General Linguistics at Camplus Palermo. In 2022, I was Tutor at the first Paolo Fabbri Summer School of Semiotics. From 2019 to 2023, I spoke in the semiotics of gastronomy, media and cultural heritage modules at the University of Palermo. Since the academic year 2024/2025, I have held the teaching of Semiotics of the Anthropocene for the master's degree in semiotics and the workshop on Writing Controversies for the degree course in philosophy at the University of Bologna.
Scientific activity
I am a referee for international and Italian journals in the fields of communication, philosophy and language theory; among them, E/C, Carte semiotiche, Actes sémiotiques, Versus, Sciences du design, Communcation, Semiotica, RIFL-Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio. I have also been an evaluator for international academic publishers, such as Sigilla, based in Belgium.
Institutional activities and academic assignments
Since 2015, I have been secretary of the CAMS/O association. In 2015-2016, I was Head of Internships for the Langues Étrangères Appliquées degree course at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Toulouse 2. In 2022, I was a member of the Observatory on the Criminal Tale at the University of Nice. In 2022-2023, I was the representative of post-doctoral researchers in the Projekt Laboratory Committee at the University of Nîmes. In 2024, I participated in the annual review of the Master's degree in Semiotics at the University of Bologna.
Membership in scientific and editorial committees
Since 2023, I have been a member of the scientific committee of the journal Global Humanities.
I was a member of the scientific and organisational committee of the study day Intelligence collective et intelligence artificielle, Nîmes, 5 July 2023.
I was a member of the scientific and organisational committee of the conference The Importance of Being Rough. (Im)politeness in The Public Sphere, Palermo, 15-16 June 2023.
I was a member of the organising committee of the Colloques d'Albi 2015, 2016 and 2018.
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