Susan Petrilli

Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is the 7th Thomas Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America; a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, Washington, D.C.; Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2002–2020); Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, South Australia; and honorary member of the Institute of Semiotics and Media Studies, Sichuan University, China. She is the author, editor, and translator of numerous publications, including books, articles, and essays that relate to her studies in philosophy of language, semiotics, and translation. She has contributed to the dissemination of works by Victoria Welby, Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Levinas, Adam Schaff, Thomas A. Sebeok, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Umberto Eco, and Augusto Ponzio. Petrilli also contributed monographs. Her most recent monographs include Signs, Language and Listening (2019); Significare, interpretare e intendere (2019); Senza ripari: Segni, differenze, estraneità (2021); Oltre il significato. La significs di Victoria Welby. Significatività e filosofia del linguaggio (2023); and On the Past, Present and Future of Semioethics. A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli by Simon Levesque (2025).