Interviews with applied/commercial semioticians from around the world. New Q&As published every 10 days.
East Asia and Pacific
“A semiotician must have an open heart — capable of appreciating the world beyond one’s own perspective.”
PANOS DIMITROPOULOS (China) | VLADIMIR DJUROVIC (China) | JOËL LIM DU BOIS (Malaysia) | MICHELLE FAN (Taiwan) | EUGENE GORNY (Thailand) | FRANCISCO HAUSS (China / Mexico) | HANNAH HOEL (New Zealand) | ELINOR LIFSHITZ (China) | WILLIAM LIU (China) | JIAKUN WANG (China) | COCO WU (Singapore / China) | SHION YOKOO (Japan / Estonia)
Europe and Central Asia
“A semiotician must be a ‘possibilist’…”
MARTHA ARANGO (Sweden) | CHRIS ARNING (England) | CHRIS BARNHAM (England) | AUDREY BARTIS (France) | ANDREA BASUNTI (England) | HIBATO BEN AHMED (France) | MACIEJ BIEDZIŃSKI (Poland) | KISHORE BUDHA (England) | GIULIA CERIANI (Italy) | BECKS COLLINS (England) | INKA CROSSWAITE (South Africa / Germany) | DORA JURD DE GIRANCOURT (France) | NATASHA DELLISTON (England) | ROB DRENT (Netherlands) | MALCOLM EVANS (England) | NICK GADSBY (England) | PETER GLASSEN (Switzerland) | PAULINA GOCH-KENAWY (Poland) | STEFANIA GOGNA (Italy) | SAMUEL GRANGE (France) | EMILY HAYES (England) | YOGI HENDLIN (Netherlands / USA) | KATRIN HORN (Austria) | LOUISE JOLLY (England) | GEMMA JONES (Netherlands) | CHRISTO KAFTANDJIEV (Bulgaria) | KAIE KOPPEL (Estonia) | LUCIA LAURENT-NEVA (England) | RACHEL LAWES (England) | KATJA MAGGIO (Netherlands) | LUCA MARCHETTI (France) | SÓNIA MARQUES (Portugal) | ASHLEY MAURITZEN (England) | ELODIE MIELCZARECK (France) | THIERRY MORTIER (Sweden) | SERDAR PAKTIN (Turkey / England) | MARIA PAPANTHYMOU (Greece / Russia) | GABRIELA PEDRANTI (Spain) | MARTA PELLEGRINI (Italy) | GAËLLE PINEDA (France) | KRZYSTOF POLAK (Poland) | ALEXANDRA ROBERT (France) | GREG ROWLAND (England) | KARIN SANDELIN (Sweden) | CARLOS SCOLARI (Spain) | COLETTE SENSIER (England) | JENNIFER SIMON (England) | TIM SPENCER (England) | DIMITAR TRENDAFILOV (Bulgaria) | JENNIFER VASILACHE (Switzerland) | ANTJE WEISSENBORN (Germany) | SHION YOKOO (Japan / Estonia)
Latin America and Caribbean
“Learn to enjoy a liminal, confused state…”
MARIANE CARA (Brazil) | ROMÁN ESQUEDA (Mexico) | GISELA GRIMBLAT (Mexico) | FRANCISCO HAUSS (China / Mexico) | IVÁN ISLAS (Mexico) | MAX MATUS (Mexico) | CLIO MEURER (Brazil) | GIANLLUCA SIMI (Brazil) | XIMENA TOBI (Argentina) | ALFREDO TRONCOSO (Mexico) | ADELINA VACA (Mexico)
Middle East and North Africa
“Semiotic discourse analysis contributes to deconstructing dominant narratives and amplifying the voices of marginalized groups.”
BIBA ALLARAKIA (Saudia Arabia) | MYRIAM BOUABID (Tunisia) |
North America
“Semioticians can create ‘magical’ outputs — but we have a systematic process for doing so.”
WHITNEY DUNLAP-FOWLER (USA) | JOSH GLENN (USA) | YOGI HENDLIN (Netherlands / USA) | SARAH JOHNSON (Canada) | BRIAN KHUMALO (South Africa / USA) | CHARLES LEECH (Canada) | SIXIA LIU (Canada) | RAMONA LYONS (USA) | CHIRAG MEDIRATTA (India / Canada) | CHARISE MITA (USA) | VIJAY PARTHASARATHY (USA) | JAMIN PELKEY (Canada) | TIM STOCK (USA) | MARIE LENA TUPOT (USA)
South Asia
“We’re all semioticians — we all ‘decode’ as part of our everyday lives.”
AIYANA GUNJAN (India) | SEEMA KHANWALKAR (India) | CHIRAG MEDIRATTA (India / Canada) | RAHUL MURDESHWAR (India) | HAMSINI SHIVAKUMAR (India)
Sub-Saharan Africa
“Semiotics is one of the few methodologies that bridges the arts and the sciences.”
INKA CROSSWAITE (South Africa / Germany) | BRIAN KHUMALO (South Africa / USA)