Editor
Geoffrey Sykes, Australia
Associate Editors
Susan Petrilli, University of Bari, Italy
Paul Ryder, University of New South Wales
Editorial Team
Myrdene Anderson, Purdue University, USA
Nicoleta Blanariu, University “Vasile Alecsandri”, Romania
Paul Boussiac, University of Toronto, Canada
Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati, Ryerson University, Canada
Verónica Devalle, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Awni Etaywe, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu, Estonia
Janys Hayes, University of Wollongong, Australia
Shaeda Isani, University of Grenoble, France
David Jean-Michel, Steiner Education, Victoria, Australia
Massimo Leone, University of Torino, Italy
Asun LópezVarela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
David Marshall, Deakin University, Australia
Demelza Martin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Inna Merkoulova, University for the Humanities, Moscow Russia
Geoffrey Owens, Wright State University, Dayton USA
Augusto Ponzio, University of Bari, Bari
Elena Semenova, Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the RAE (Moscow, Russia)
Christina Spiesel, Yale University, USA
Editorial Associate
Kristina Ilisevic, University of New South Wales, Australia
Editors
Geoffrey Sykes (Editor) has lectured extensively in communication, semiotic, media and cultural studies, at the University of Wollongong, University of Western Sydney, Notre Dame University Sydney and most recently, the University of New South Wales. He has given numerous guest lectures and conference presentations. His doctorate on the seminal semiotic figure Charles Peirce received strong international reports. He has had over thirty papers and book chapters published, including refereed journals such as Semiotic Review of Books, Canadian Journal of Communication, Media International Australia, American Journal of Semiotics, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He has successful experience as a filmmaker, with broadcast credits screened nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as on SBS television, Arts NZ and Foxtel. As a theatre writer and producer he has over 35 professional theatre credits. Along with other interests, he brings arts and media perspectives into the journal.
Paul Ryder (Associate Editor) holds a Ph.D. in Literature, Media, and Communication from Massey University, New Zealand. Apart from semiotics in the context of literature and film, Paul’s interests include the application of interdisciplinary theories and models to a broad range of commercial, organisational, and political challenges. Formerly founder and director of a New Zealand-based school for the academically gifted, he is currently director of Ryder Consulting Services (Sydney), has been a senior doctoral studies supervisor at the University of Western Sydney, and now lectures at the University of New South Wales). He has attuned knowledge of communication studies, including interpersonal and non-verbal dimensions. He has experiences in educational business enterprise and special needs education that are particularly helpful for this project. He is a member of the Athens Institute of Higher Education and Research (ATINER). He has a keen knowledge of business finances and project practices.
Susan Petrilli (Associate Editor) is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro,” Italy. She is 7th Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, Fellow of the International Communicology Institute (ICI), Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, South Australia, and vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. She is invited member of the scientific committee of several international journals. . In addition to various book series in Italy, she co-directs with Augusto Ponzio the Peter Lang series, “Reflections on Signs and Language”. She has delivered lectures as visiting professor across the globe, including in Australia, China, Brazil, USA, Canada, South Africa, and various countries in Europe.
Her book titles include: The Self as a Sign, the World and the Other (Transaction, 2013); Em outro lugar e de outro modo (Pedro&João, 2013); Sign Studies and Semioethics. Communication, Translation and Values (Mouton De Gruyter, 2014); Riflessioni sulla teoria del linguaggio e dei segni (Mimesis, 2014); Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (Transaction, 2015); Nella vita dei segni (Mimesis, 2015); (in collab. with A. Ponzio) Semioetica e comunicazione globale (Mimesis, 2014) and Lineamenti di semiotica e di filosofia del linguaggio (Guerra, 2016); The Global World and Its Manifold Faces. Otherness as the Basis of Communication (2016); Digressioni nella storia. Dal tempo del sogno al tempo della globalizzazione (2017); Challenges to Living Together. Transculturalism, Migration, Exploitation. For a Semioethics of Human Relations (2017); and for the book series Athanor: Fedi, credenze e fanatismo (Faiths, Beliefs and Fanaticism, ed. 2016), Pace, pacificazione, pacifismo e i loro linguaggi (Peace, pacification, pacifism and their languages, ed. 2017), and L’immagine nella parola, nella musica e nella pittura (The image in the word, in music and in painting, ed. 2018). Her most recent books are Signs, Language and Listening. Semioethic Perspectives (2019) and Segni, linguaggi e parole. Comunicazione e interpretazione come traduzione (2019).
In addition to publishing in English and Italian her writings are available in Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Serb, Greek, Chinese