Luigi Lobaccaro is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna. His main research interests are in the areas of Interpretive and Cognitive Semiotics, 4E Cognitive Sciences, and Psychopathology. Specifically, his work focuses on the sense-making processes in schizophrenia, including the study of schizophrenic language, the relationship between schizophrenic narratives and embodied experience, and the cognitive semiotics of delusions.
He has previously been a visiting researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently involved in the European Erasmus+ NeMo project (https://site.unibo.it/nemoproject/en ). Also, he collaborates with the International Center for Humanities “Umberto Eco”, the Center for Knowledge and Cognition, and the Centre for Enactivism and Cognitive Semiotics.
Career:
2022 - Present: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Communication
2020 - Present: Researcher of the Erasmus+ NeMo European project.
2018 - Present: Research of the Cognitive Semiotics group coordinated by Prof. Claudio Paolucci.
In September 2022, he obtained the teaching qualification for the A-12 "Literary disciplines in secondary education institutions of second degree" class.
Education:
01/11/2018 - 27/06/2022 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics (DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND COMMUNICATION - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA)
Thesis title: Ai confini del senso. La schizofrenia tra semiotica, psicopatologia e scienze cognitive
Final evaluation: Excellent cum laude
23/11/2015– 23/03/2018
Master Degree in Italian studies, European literary cultures - "Alma Mater Studiorum" Università di Bologna.
Thesis in Semiotics of the Perception and of the Body: Sé in quanto altro, sé come un altro, sé per un altro - Origine e funzione sociale del sé narrativo.
Final evaluation: 110/110 cum laude
11/09/2012– 29/10/2015
Bachelor degree in Humanities - Curriculum: Classical Studies - Università degli studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
Thesis in Latin Literature: La Senectus nella Cena Trimalchionis.
Final evaluation: 110/110 cum laude
2006–2011
Classical High School Diploma
Teaching activities:
2020 - Present: Teaching assistant for the course Semiotics of the Perception and the Body (MA) (sector M-FIL/05) in the Master Degree in Semiotics, University of Bologna.
He has given some lectures within the courses of Semiotics of the Perception and the Body (MA).
Scientific activities:
Participated in numerous national and international research programs, including: from 2018 to 2019 in the PRIN project "Perception, performativity, and cognitive sciences" (PRIN 2016-2019) and in the Erasmus+ NeMo research project "NEw MOnitoring guidelines to develop innovative ECEC teachers curricula".
Visiting Researcher at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. FUNDING: Marco Polo Program. (01/01/2021- 01/07/2021 and 01/09/2021- 30/11/2021)
Referee for the international journal Semiotica.
Institutional and academic posts:
Memberships in scientific and editorial committees:
2018 - Present: Member of the Italian Society of Philosophy of Language (SFL)
2018 - Present: Member of the Semiotic Association of Semiotic Studies (AISS)
2018 - 2020: Member of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC)
Awards and recognition:
In 2022, within the initiative @UniboPER/PhD Storytelling, his research has been selected as worthy of dissemination on UniboMagazine.
In 2021, he won a scholarship for the University of Bologna's Marco Polo Program with a project titled "Narrative self and schizophrenia: between phenomenology, semiotics and enactivism". Scholarship value: 3450 euros.
