Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher for the VAMP project at the University of Bologna since 2023, I conduct my research in the field of the semiotics of controversies. My research interests focus in particular on ecological controversies as an interpretive key to the Anthropocene, on memory and the formation of collective identities, and on semiotic theory and epistemology. I am currently especially interested in the processes of inclusion and exclusion of non-humans in political debate, in the contestation of large infrastructural projects, and in extractivist interpretations of the environment.
Education
I graduated in Semiotics in 2014 from the Department of Communication at the University of Bologna and obtained a PhD in Language Sciences – Semiotics from the University of Toulouse 2 in 2019, with a dissertation entitled Les nouvelles frontières du développement: l’idéologie durable. Une analyse sémiotique des textes onusiens. In 2022, I earned a second PhD in Cultural Heritage from the University of Palermo, with a thesis entitled Critica dell’antimafia. Retoriche, narrazioni, valori (“Critique of Anti-Mafia Discourse: Rhetorics, Narratives, Values”).
Academic Career
In 2019, I obtained the habilitation as Maître de Conférences from the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNU) in the disciplinary sections of Language Sciences (07) and Romance Studies (14), and in 2024 also in Information and Communication (71). From 2022 to 2023, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Semiotics and Design at the Projekt Research Unit of the University of Nîmes.
From October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024, I was a Research Fellow at the FILO Department of the University of Bologna, within the framework of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship; since October 1, 2024, I have been a Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) at the same department.
Teaching Activity
Since 2015, I have continuously taught courses in Communication, Text Semiotics, General Semiotics, Italian Language and Literature, Semiotics of Food, Semiotics of Media, and Semiotics of Cultural Heritage in undergraduate and graduate programs at the Universities of Bologna, Toulouse, and Palermo.
From 2015 to 2017, I was a Lecteur at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Toulouse 2, and from 2015 to 2019, an adjunct professor in the Department of Language Sciences at the same university.
From 2020 to 2022, I was Tutor in Sociolinguistics and General Linguistics at Camplus Palermo. In 2022, I served as Tutor for the first Paolo Fabbri Summer School of Semiotics.
From 2019 to 2023, I contributed to teaching modules in Semiotics of Food, Media, and Cultural Heritage at the University of Palermo.
From the 2024/2025 academic year, I teach the courses Semiotics of the Anthropocene, Ontological Anthropology, and Ontologia Antropologica within the Master’s Degree curricula in Semiotics at the University of Bologna (Segni testi e linguaggi and Embodied, Social and Cultural Systems).
Scientific Activity
I serve as referee for several international and Italian journals in the fields of communication, philosophy, and language theory, including E/C, Carte semiotiche, Actes sémiotiques, Versus, Sciences du design, Communication, Semiotica, RIFL – Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio, Cygne noir, and Philosophy Kitchen. I have also acted as reviewer for international academic publishers, such as Sigilla (Belgium).
Institutional and Academic Roles
Since 2015, I have been Secretary of the CAMS/O association. In 2015–2016, I served as Internship Coordinator for the Langues Étrangères Appliquées program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Toulouse 2.
In 2022, I was a member of the Observatory on Criminal Narratives at the University of Nice.
In 2022–2023, I represented Postdoctoral Researchers in the Projekt laboratory committee at the University of Nîmes.
In 2024 and 2025, 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 organizing committee of the study day Intelligence collective et intelligence artificielle (Nîmes, 5 July 2023), and of the conference The Importance of Being Rough. (Im)politeness in the Public Sphere (Palermo, 15–16 June 2023).
I was also a member of the organizing committee for the Colloques d’Albi in 2015, 2016, and 2018.
