Who is SemioSimo

    Simona Stano is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of theUniversity of Turin (UniTo, Italy). She is also the vice-Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCe).

    She holds a PhD in Sciences of Language and Communication from the University of Turin (UniTo, Italy, 2014) and a PhD in Communication Sciences from Lugano University (USI, Switzerland, 2014).

    She worked as a Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI, Lithuania) from 2015 to 2018 and Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto (UofT, Canada – 2013), Universitat de Barcelona (UB, Spain 2015-2016), Observatorio de la Alimentación (ODELA, Spain – 2015-2016), Kaunas University of Technology (2015-2018) and New York University (United States, 2019-2021).

    Prof. Stano deals mainly with semiotics of culture,alimentazione, del corpo e della comunicazione, argomenti su cui ha presentato, organizzato e/o co-diretto conferenze in ambito nazionale e internazionale, nonché pubblicato numerosi articoli, capitoli di libro, curatele e tre monografie (Critique of Pure Nature, in stampa, 2023; I sensi del cibo. Elementi di semiotica dell’alimentazione, 2018; Eating the Other. Translations of the Culinary Code, 2015).