Simona Stano

Simona Stano is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Turin (UniTo, Italy), where she also performs as Chair of the MA in Communication and Media Cultures and vice-Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication (CIRCe). She worked as Senior Researcher at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) from 2015 to 2018 and collaborated as Visiting Research Scholar with various research centres and universities around the world, including the University of Toronto (UofT, Canada, 2013), Universitat de Barcelona (UB, Spain, 2015-2016), Observatorio de la Alimentación (ODELA, Spagna, 2015-2016), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU, Lithuania, 2015-2018) and New York University (NYU, United States, 2019-2021).

Prof. Stano deals mainly with the semiotics of culture, food and corporeality, as well as with communication studies, with specific reference to the potentialities and challenges brought about by technological innovation. On these topics she has published several papers, edited volumes (including special issues of top semiotic journals such as Semiotica, Lexia and Signata), and three monographs (Eating the Other. Translations of the Culinary Code, 2015; I sensi del cibo. Elementi di semiotica dell'alimentazione, 2018; Critique of Pure Nature, 2023). In 2018 she was awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship for a research project (COMFECTION, 2019-2021) on the semiotic analysis of digital communication, especially as related to food, science and health.