Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

email: stefano.gensini@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917279
building: Villa Mirafiori
room: 210

Stefano Gensini (Firenze 1953-) is since 2006 full professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he gives courses on Philosophy of Language and History of linguistic thought. Formerly, he was on the chair of Text Semiotics (University of Cagliari), Semiotics (Salerno), Philosophy of Language and Semiotics (Naples, Orientale). At Naples, Orientale, he was responsabile of a three-year degree on “Philosophy and Communication” as well as of a specialist degree on “Intercultural Communication”. Gensini’s scientific interests include topics in Semiotics and Philosophy of language (the natural constraints of language, animal communication, the theory of metaphor etc.), the history of language ideas (focusing on authors such as Leibniz, Vico, Leopardi, Darwin), educational linguistics. His curriculum includes aprox. 150 publications, several of which in English language. Gensini is since its foundation member of the “Società di filosofia del linguaggio” and partecipates to the editorial board of scientific journals such as Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachswissenschaft, Studi filosofici, Bollettino di Italianistica, Comunicazione Politica. Since 2012 he is editor (in collaboration with Giovanni Manetti, Univ. of Siena) of the international journal "Blityri. Storia delle idee sui segni e le lingue" as well as of the series "Semeia" (since 2016; Ets Pub. Co, Pisa).