Materialistic Semiotics and Social Reality A European School for World Peace

Susan Petrilli is Full Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Bari, Italy. She has published widely in her field in both the English and Italian language and has engaged continuously in collaborative editorial projects promoting cooperation and dialogue among scholars nationally and internationally. She has also translated many works by a series of different authors. With Augusto Ponzio she introduced Semiotics of translation as a subject into the Italian university system at the turn of the century. She has now introduced Semioethics as a new subject. Conceived in the 1980s semioethics has developed as an orientation in sign studies with a focus on the relation between signs and values, on sense, meaning and significance, on the relation between semiotics and axiology, thus on the inevitability of the originating I-other entanglement.

Her book titles over the past decade include: Sign Studies and Semioethics (2014), Nella vita dei segni (2015), Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (2015), Lineamenti di semiotica e di filosofia del linguaggio (with A. Ponzio) (2016), The Global World and Its Manifold Faces 2016), Signs, Language and Listening (2019), Significare, interpretare e intendere (2019), Identità e alterità (with A . Ponzio), Senza ripari. Segni, differenze, estraneità (2021), Oltre il significato. La significs di Victoria Welby (2023), Semioetica. La scienza dei segni in ascolto (with A. Ponzio) and On the Past, Present and Future of Semioethics: A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli by Simon Levesque (2025). Her edited volumes: Challenges to Living Together. Transculturalism, Migration, Exploitation (2017), Digressioni nella storia. Dal tempo del sogno al tempo della globalizzazione (2017), L’immagine nella parola, nella musica e nella pittura (2018), Diritti umani e diritti altrui (2020), Maestri di segni e costruttori di pace (2021), Translation Translation (2021), A. Ponzio, La comunicazione come scambio, produzione e consumo (2022). Co-edited titles include: Translation and translatability in intersemiotic space (2020), Brian Medlin, The Level-Headed Revolutionary (2021), Exploring the Translatability of Emotions (2022), Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions (2023), Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences (2023), Semioethics as Existential Dialogue: Reflections on Religion and Life (2023), La speranza come segno / Hope as a Sign (2024), Semioethics as Existential Dialogue. The Gift and Burden of Responsibility (2025), Il diritto all’infunzionalità quale fondamento dei diritti umani (2025); and forthcoming: Victoria Welby and Her Significs: Signs, a Woman’s View (2026), Semioethics, Translatability, Life (2026), Semioethics as Social Dialogic. Precarity, Insecurity & Crisis in the Twenty-first Century (2026), and The Palgrave Peirce Handbook (2027).