CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Semiotics and Languages Theory (from September 2022)
Director of the Second Cycle Degree in Semiotics, University of Bologna (from May 2024)
Director of TRAME, Center for the Semiotic Study of Memory (from September 2021)
EDUCATION
2006-2009: PhD in Semiotics, University of Bologna (Sum Italia)
1997-2004: Laurea quinquennale in Scienze della Comunicazione University of Bologna.
1991-1996: Diploma di maturità classica. Liceo Classico “Nunzio Vaccalluzzo”, Leonforte (En).
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
September 2019-September 2022: Senior Assistant Professor, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies
January 2019-September 2019: Research Manager (Administrative position), University of Bologna, Research Area, National and University Funding (PPNA).
March 2014-July 2018: Postdoc Research Fellow, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies.
February 2012-February 2013: Postdoc Research Fellow, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies.
January 2010-January 2012: PostDoc Fellow, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies.
VISITING POSITIONS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
2022-2023: Project's secondment for the research project MSCA-RISE SPEME - Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia. Visiting researcher at UvA - University of Amsterdam (May 2022 and 2023) and UBA University of Buenos Aires (March 2022 and 2023).
2022: SuHRF Visiting Researcher Fellow, University of Uppsala, Campus Gotland (Visby) — March 9-20 2022, Sustainable Heritage Research Forum.
2013-2014: Part-time Research Fellow, VU - Vriije Universiteit Amsterdam — August 2013-January 2014 Collaboration to “Terrorscapes” project.
2012-2013: Fellow, NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities) — September 2012-January 2013 “Theme-Group Fellow” for the project “Terrorscapes in Postwar Europe. Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Terror and Genocide”.
2010: Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development — January 2010-April 2010 “Marco Polo” fellowship from Università di Bologna, for a research project on urban conflicts. Tutor: Dr. Albena Yaneva.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Research projects (coordination and participation):
2024-2027: Team Leader for University of Bologna, of the project “DIGHT-NET. Sustainable, Usable and Visible Digital Cultural Heritage: Twinning for Excellence”. European funded project Horizon CSA HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02. PI: University of Tallinn. Partners: University of Bologna, UvA University of Amsterdam, Turku University https://dight-net.tlu.ee/
2023-2025: Principal Investigator of the National Project CULT-UP. Upcycling and Cultural Heritage. Project funded by the programme PRIN PNRR Next Generation EU (units: University of Bologna and University of Turin) https://site.unibo.it/cultup/it
2022-2025: Management Committee Member in the COST Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (SlowMemo) - (Action Chair: Prof. Jenny Wustenberg) https://www.slowmemory.eu/
2019-2024: Researcher in the European project (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017) SPEME - Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia. PI: Prof. Anna Maria Lorusso.
2017: Researcher in the two-years project Spaces of fear in collaboration with Duke University, funded by the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory. Project coordinators: Prof. Patrizia Violi and Prof. Ilaria Porciani.
2016-2018, responsible (with N. Novello Paglianti) for the research on “Design d’environment et marquage du site de stockage de déchets radioactifs”, the Project “Memory”, CeReS (University of Limoges) and ANDRA (Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs) partnership
2013-2015, Researcher for the project Smart cities, socio-cultural capital and cultural heritage, coordinated by University of Bologna and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, funded by FARB('finanziamenti dell’Università di Bologna per la ricerca di base') and FIBRA (Fondazione Culturale Italo-Brasiliana). http://www.irtbrasil.unibo.it/en/projects/smart-cities-socio-cultural-capital-and-cultural-heritage
2012-2014, Researcher for the International Project Terrorscapes. Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Terror and Genocide in Postwar Europe. Funded by NWO(Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek), NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences), AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and VU Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam https://nias.knaw.nl/themegroup/terrorscapes-transnational-memory-of-totalitarian-terror-and-genocide-in-postwar-europe/ http://www.terrorscapes.org
2011, Researcher in the research project e-Diasporas Atlas. Exploration and cartography of diasporas in numeric networks and digital territories. Funded by ANR (Agence national de recherche française) and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris.
http://www.e-diasporas.fr [http://www.e-diasporas.fr/]
Participation to National and International research center and groups
From September 2021,Director and coordinator of the Department Research Center TraMe – Center for the semiotic study of memory (University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy). https://centri.unibo.it/trame/en
From October 2021, Vice-President of AISS – Italian Association for the Semiotic Studies.
From September 2019, Associated researcher to the International Center for the Humanities “Umberto Eco” (from 2025 member of the board). https://cue.unibo.it/it
From September 2020 to September 2024, Member of the Board of the Mokichi Okada Chair on Beauty (University of Bologna, Center “Umberto Eco”), in partnership with Mokichi Okada Art and Culture Foundation. https://site.unibo.it/bub-mocob/it
From 2022, Member of the Scientific Board of Center for the Study of Memory, University of San Marino. https://www.unirsm.sm/it/centro-studi-memoria-/consiglio-scientifico_558.htm
From 2020, Member of the research group SERIC- FILCOM Seminar of current research, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna. https://dfc.unibo.it/it/ricerca/gruppi-di-ricerca/seric-filcom
Participation to editorial boards of journals or book series
From May 2023, Member of the Editorial board of Bibliomanie https://www.bibliomanie.it [https://www.bibliomanie.it/]
From May 2021,Section Editor at the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. https://meteor.springer.com/chandc/?id=1115&tab=About&mode=ReadPage&entity=8696
From January 2020,Member of the editorial board of the journal International Journal of Heritage, Memory and Conflict (Subject Editor for Critical Heritage Studies). https://www.aup.nl/en/journal/heritage-memory-and-conflict-journal-hmc
From January 2018,Member of the scientific board of the series “Biblioteca/Semiotica”, Edizioni Meltemi. https://www.meltemieditore.it/collana/biblioteca-semiotica/
From May 2013,Member of the editorial board of VS-Quaderni di studi semiotici. https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/0393-8255
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy—from A.Y. 2024/2025 Courses of Semiotics of Urban Spaces (BA in Communication Studies), Laboratory of Philosophy (BA in Philosophy), Semiotics of Memory and Methodologies of Analysis 1 (MA in Semiotics), Memorial Processes (second level professional master's Degree in Historical Communication), Creativity and re-use (cycle of seminars for the PhD students of PSCS), Semiotics of Cultural Heritage (lessons for the seminar on Cultural Heritage for PhD students of PSCS).
Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication —from A.Y. 2022/2023 Courses of "Semiotics of Urban Spaces" (BA in Communication Studies), “Laboratory of Philosophy” (BA in Philosophy), "Semiotics of Memory" and “Laboratory of Semiotics of Space” (MA in Semiotics), Memorial Processes (second level professional master's Degree in Historical Communication).
Tenured Assistant Professor, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication —from A.Y. 2019/20 to 2021/2023 Courses of "Semiotics of Urban Spaces" (BA in Communication Studies) and "Semiotics of Memory" (MA in Semiotics).
Supervisor, University of Bologna, MA in Design, Semiotics and BA in Communication Studies —from A.Y. 2018/19, supervisor of 20 BA dissertations and 6 MA dissertations. I co-supervised 10 MA dissertations. I am currently Supervisor of 2 PhD Thesis for the PhD Philosophy, Cognitive Sciences and Semiotics.
Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna, School of Engineering and Architecture — from A.Y. 2015/2016 to A.Y. 2018/2019–Teaching module of 'Communication Studies' for the Course of Industrial Design at the School of Engineering and Architecture for the University of Bologna.
Tutor, University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication —2016-2018 – Assistant professor for the courses of Visual Communication; Semiotics of Conflict; Semiotics of Memory; Geography and Cognition of European Territories; MA in Semiotics.
Teacher, University of Bologna, PhD course in Semiotics — June 2012 Seminars for the PhD students of Semiotics, Istituto di Scienze Umane (SUM).
Teacher, ISIA Urbino — April 29th, 2011 Teaching activities in the workshop “Walk in progress” for the students of I and II level of the School of Graphic and Publishing Design, ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche), Urbino.
Teacher, Univerza na Primorskem, Koper — July 5th-16th, 2010 Teacher at the Summer school “Meta-Humanities. The Mediterranean between Modernity and Post-Modernity: Space, Cultures, Aesthetics and Ethics”, Univerza na Primorskem, Fakulteta za humanisticne studije, Koper, Slovenija.
Teacher, Istituto di Scienze Umane SUM — February 7th, 2008 Lecturer at the training course for young Iraqi “La porta d'Occidente”, organised by Istituto di scienze umane, Sum Italia (Firenze).
INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 2024-… Elected Member of Giunta di Dipartimento di Filosofia
- 2022-2024. Member of the Board of the PhD in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics (PSCS), Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies (University of Bologna)
- Member of the Internationalization Committee of the Department of Philosophy and Communication
- Member of the board for quality of the MA in Semiotics
- Member of the Internationalization Committee of the MA in Semiotics
SCIENTIFIC MEMBERSHIPS: MSA, Memory Studies Association AISS, Associazione italiana di studi semiotici; SFL, Società italiana di filosofia del linguaggio, iASS, International Association of Semiotics.
