1972 Degree in Philosophy, University of Bologna.

Academic Appointments

1975-1980 Grant from the National Ministry of Public Instruction (Ministero della Istruzione Pubblica) at the University of Bologna

1980-1992 Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Communication Science, Chair of Semiotics (Prof. Umberto Eco)

1992-1995 Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Bologna, Department of Communication Science

1995... Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Department of Communication Science

1988-1994 Scientific Director of the Center for Cognitive and Semiotics Studies, University of San Marino.

1994... Director of the Department of Cognitive and Semiotics Studies, University of San Marino.

1980-81 CRN-Nato Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics

1983 Visiting Scholar at the Linguistic Summer Institute, Linguistic Society of America, UCLA.

1984-85 Scientific consultant at the IBM Scientific Center in Pisa (Italy) for a research project on a parser for Italian

1985-86 Visiting Scientist at IBM’s Thomas Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, project for development of an Italian parser and a fragment of an Italian grammar

1987 Invited professor at the ISISS (International Summer Institute of Semiotic Studies), Toronto University, offering a course on ‘Subjectivity and Language’.

1988 Invited professor at the ISISS (International Summer Institute of Semiotic Studies), Vancouver, University of British Columbia, offering a course on ‘Semiotics and Artificial Intelligence’.

1990-91 Japan Foundation fellowship as a Visiting Scientist at Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku, with a research project on Japanese theories of signs and language

1992 Consultant at Park Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto, California, research project on ‘Textual genre and automatic classification’.

1994 Invited professor at the Summer School of Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, University of Trondheim, Norway, offering a course on ‘A Semiotic Approach to Meaning: from Lexical Semantics to Text Interpretation’.

1994 Professor at the NOW Course of the European Community and Center of Documentation and Research on Women (Centro di Documentazione e Ricerca delle Donne), Bologna, on ‘Donne e linguaggio’ (Women and Language).

1998 Invited workshop organizer and presenter for UNESCO Project ‘Mediteranean Women and Media’, Irbid University, Jordan

1981 Stanford University, California, USA

1981 University of California at Berkeley, USA

1983 Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, Conference on ‘La Lettre’

1984 Università di Palermo, Italy, Terzo Conference Internazionale di Semiotica

1984 New York University, USA, International Conference on ‘Women, Gender, Language’

1987 University of Toronto, Canada

1988 University of Vancouver, Canada

1988 European University of Florence, Italy, Conference on ‘Equality and Difference’

1989 University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1990 Università di Valencia, Spain

1990 Maison de Science de l’Homme, Paris, France

1991 Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku, Japan

1992 Technische Universitat, Berlin

1993 Rank Xerox Research Center, Grenoble, Switzerland

1993 Mostra d’Oltremare, Conference ‘Futuro Remoto’, Naples, Italy

1993 Conference on ‘Summarizing Text for Intelligent Communication’, Dagsthul, Germany

1994 Brown University Program, University of California, Sede di Bologna, Italy

1994 University of Trondheim, Norway

1994 Università di Palermo, Italy, XXVIII Congresso SLI (Società Linguistica Italiana)

1995 Università di Cassino, Italy, Conference Società Filosofia del Linguaggio

1995 Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura, Conference on ‘Which Semantics’, Bolzano, Italy

1996 6th International Congress of I.A.D.A. Conference on Dialogue, Prague, Czech Republic

1996 Conference on "Umberto Eco: au nom du sens", Cerisy, France

1997 Torino University, Italy, First Workshop on Lexical Semantics Systems

1998 UNESCO Project, Irbid University, Jordan

1998 Roma University, Italy, AISS Conference

1998 Siena University, Italy, Conference on ‘Symptoms and Signs’

1988-1992 Regional contact for the ISI (International Semiotic Institute) Regional Center for Southern Europe.

1993... Member of Comité d’évaluation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France.

1993-1996 Vice-president of the Italian Society for the Philosophy of Language

1994... Editor, together with Umberto Eco, of the series "Semiotic and Cognitive Studies", published by Brepols.

Member of the Editorial Board for the following journals:

Member of the following Associations:

• Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici
• International Association for Semiotic Studies
• Società Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio
• Società Linguistica Italiana
• International Pragmatic Association
• Cognitive Linguistics Society.

Member of the Italian Order of Psychologists.

Executive Board member for the Center for Documentation and Research on Women, (Centro di Documentazione e Ricerca delle Donne), Comune di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

As Director of the Department of Cognitive and Semiotic Studies, University of San Marino, she has organized from 1988 and up to the present day more than 50 Conferences and workshops, amongst which have been:

1988

• Workshop with Hilary Putnam
• Workshop with M.A.K. Halliday

1989

• Workshop with John Searle
• Conference on "Mental Models"
• Conference on "Connectionism and Language"

1990

• Conference on and with W.V.Quine, with proceedings published in the volume "On Quine", P.Leonardi, M.Santambrogio eds., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Workshop with Jerome Bruner
• Conference on "Motivation in Language" (proceedings in press)
• Workshop with Dan Sperber

1991

• Conference on "Similarity in Language, Thought, and Perception, proceedings published in a series edited by U.Eco and P.Violi, Brepols, 1995.
• Seminar "Discourse analysis"
• Conference on "Semantic Theory Today"

1992

• Conference on "Phonosymbolism and Poetic Language", (proceedings in press)
• Workshop with Gerald Edelman and Jerry Fodor
• Conference on "Sogno ed etnologia", (proceedings in press)
• Conference on "Knowledge through Signs: Ancient Semiotics", (proceedings in press)

1993

• Conference on "Mind and Consciousness"
• Conference on "The Culture of Discourse"
• Conference on "Hjelmslev today", (proceedings in press)
• Workshop with Richard Lewontin

1994

• Conference on "Vestigia, Imagines, Verba. Semiotics and Logic in Medieval Theological Texts (XII-XIV Century), (proceedings in press).
• Conference on "The Future of the Book", (proceedings in press).
• Conference on "La Comunicazione"

1995

• Summer School on "Language and Understanding"
• Corso di "Informatica per le scienze umane"
• Conference on "Morphodynamic Models for Language and Perception", (atti in corso di stampa).

1996

• Conference on "Saul Kripke’s Contribution to Philosophy"
• Summer School "The Psycho-Biological Bases of Language"
• Conference on "L’efficacia del testo.Per una semiotica degli effetti"

1997

• Workshop "La comunicazione implicita"
• Summer School "Meaning and Grammar"
• Conference on "Ontological and Linguistic Categories"
• Advanced Course "Second Language Acquisition"
• Conference on "La semantica fin de siècle: dalla fondazione di Michel Bréal all’attualità della ricerca"

1998

• Conference on "Paul Grice’s Heritage"
• Summer School "Variant and Invariant in Language"
• Semiotic School "Narrativity"
• Workshop on "Emotions"

Theory of Semiotics, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Women and Language, Language and Subjectivity.

5 books and over 50 articles, papers, and editorial publications. A detailed publication list is available on request.