Carola Barbero

Carola Barbero is professor of Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Literature at the University of Turin. Her research interests include empty names, the metaphysics and ontology of fictional entities, emotions, the paradox of fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and the distinction between literary and ordinary language. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland (2007) and a visiting professor at ETH Zurich (2020). She was a member of the steering committee of the Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy (2010-2012). She is the author of many essays published in international journals, and her books include Madame Bovary: Something Like a Melody (AlboVersorio, 2005), Chi ha paura di Mister Hyde? (Il Melangolo, 2010), La biblioteca delle emozioni (Ponte alle grazie, 2012), Filosofia della letteratura (Carocci, 2013), L'arte di nuotare (Il Melangolo, 2016), Significato (with S. Caputo, Carocci 2018), La porta della fantasia (Il Mulino, 2019), Quel brivido nella schiena. I linguaggi della letteratura (Il Mulino, 2023) and Nuotare via (Il Mulino 2024).