Isabella Pezzini is full Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at Sapienza University of Rome. She studied in Bologna with Umberto Eco, Paolo Fabbri and Omar Calabrese; in Paris with Louis Marin and Algirdas Julien Greimas.
Her research concerns topics of general semiotics and semiotics of culture in relation to the theories of languages, philosophy and aesthetics (the modern and contemporary development of the discipline, its epistemological roots, the internal theoretical debate, the main figures). She is particularly interested in semiotics of the text and narrativity, verbal and multimodal, which deepens with regard to the expressive dimension of subjectivity and affectivity and issues related to persuasive force and symbolic efficacy. Her case studies concern communication, political discourse, daily life, fashions and consumption, with particular attention to the evolution of technologies, genres and text formats. Finally, she extends his studies to the field of the semiotics of space, urban space and architecture, with a particular interest in public spaces, landscape, places of consumption, exhibitions and museums.
She has written 12 books, edited 25 collective volumes, more than 200 essays published in books and international scientific journals. She also promoted and done translations of scientific texts from the French.

EXPERIENCE

She is the president of FeDRoS (Féderation Romane de Sémiotique). She is the coordinator of the Communication curriculum of the PhD in Communication, Sociology and Marketing of Sapienza University of Rome. She organized or co-organized several conferences and seminars, in particular with the Sapienza University; Italian Association for Semiotics Studies (AISS), LARS (Laboratorio Romano di Semiotica) and FeDRoS (Féderation Romane de Sémiotique).