Susan Petrilli is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari
“Aldo Moro,” Italy. She is 7 th 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
Portughese, Spanish, French, German, Serb, Greek, Chinese.