Vice - President of the Italian Association of Semiotics (AISS), Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna, where she teaches Semiotics. Among her publications:Semiotics of the journalistic text (with P. Violi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009), Metaphor and Knowledge (ed, Milan, Bompiani, 2004); The plot of the text (Milan, Bompiani, 2006); Umberto Eco. Themes, Issues, and semiotic paths (Rome, Carocci, 2008), Semiotics of Culture (Rome - Bari, Laterza, 2009). She is member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Memory and cultural traumas. Since 1998 she is a consultant to the publishing house Bompiani.