Phd in PHILOSOPHY

Marina De Palo is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome. She graduated in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome and then received her PhD in Philosophy of Language from the University of Palermo. Her research interests focus on the History of the Philosophy of Language, especially on the linguistic thought of XIX and XX century; on the relations that occur among linguistics, psychology and the philosophy of language; on the origin of linguistic semantics starting with the work of Michel Bréal; on the relation between phenomenology and theory of language; on Saussure and European structuralisms; on De Mauro’s theory of language in the context of roman schools of philosophy. She previously thought Semiotics at the University of Salerno, since 2002 to 2006 as a Researcher, and then since 2006 to 2012 as an Associate Professor. Since 2015 she is Co-Director (with Stefano Gensini) of the “Laboratorio di Storia delle idee linguistiche” at Sapienza University of Rome. She is also a former member of the scientific board of the PhD course in Documentation Studies, linguistics and literature at Sapienza University of Rome and of the École doctorale at Université Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris III). Since January 2022 she is Coordinator of the scientific board of the PhD course in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. She is a member of the Cercle linguistique de Prague and of the Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure. She is a member of the scientific board of the series “SEMEIA. Segni lingua e la loro storia”, published by Edizioni ETS, and a member of the scientific board of the International Summer School on Linguistic and Semiotic Thought organized by the CISPELS – Coordinamento Intersocietario per la Storia del Pensiero Linguistico e Semiotico. She has been professeure invitée at Université Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris III) (2011), where she gave doctoral lectures on the History of linguistic ideas. She has also been guest professor at CNRS/Ecole normale supérieure and Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (Paris, 2018). She supervised several PhD theses in the framework of joint PhD theses supervision agreements with Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie and Université Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris III), and she served abroad as a member on several PhD Committees. She was invited speaker at the Fourteenth International Conference on The History of The Language Sciences – ICHoLS XIV (Paris, 2017) and member of the scientific committee of the Fifteenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences” – ICHoLS XV (Milan, 2021).