Marina Sbisà#
| Membership Number: | 5048 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www2.units.it/sbisama/en/?file=curri.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Academic positions at the University of Trieste
- 2001 - 2018 Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) of Philosophy and Theory of Languages)
- 2012 - 2015 Head of Department of Humanities, member of Academic Senate
- 2011 - 2017 Co-ordinator of Interdepartmental Center for Research on Mind and Language
- 1998 - 2001 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Language, Trieste
- 1992 - 1998 Associate Professor of Semiotics, Trieste
- 1975 - 1992 Researcher in Philosophy, Trieste
- International visiting positions
- 1999 (Spring) Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), USA
- 2008 - 2017 Several research visits to the Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University as Academic Visitor
- 2002 (Fall) Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy of Rutgers University, New Brunswick (NJ), USA
- 2008 - 2017 Research visits to the Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University as Academic Visitor
- 1972 Visiting researcher, Oxford, Corpus Christi College, collaborator with J. O. Urmson on second edition of Austin, 'How to do things with words'
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistic pragmatics
- Narrative semiotics
- Discourse analysis
- Action theory
- Presupposition
- Philosophy of language
- Gender studies
- J. L. Austin
- Speech act theory
Honours and Awards
- Invited Professorships and Fellowships
- 2019 (Trinity Term) Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford
- 2010 Visiting Professor at the University of Amiens and at CURAPP (CNRS), France
- 2006 (September) Distinguished lecture series at Fuji Women’s University, Sapporo, Japan
- 2006 (Hilary Term) Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford
- 2002 (Fall) Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy of Rutgers University, New Brunswick (NJ), USA
- 1999 (Spring) Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), USA.
- Major Research Projects
- 2015-2017, Participation in the research project of the University of Trieste, Department of Humanities, 'The Jew’s Body. Rappresentazioni, narrazioni, linguaggi dopo la Shoah, directed by Tullia Catalan
- 2013-2015, participation in a PRIN project on 'Realism and objectivity' as a member of the research unit of the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, directed by Annalisa Coliva
- 2008-2010 Participation in the PRIN project on “Aspects of truth” as a member of the research unit of the University of Bologna, directed by Paolo Leonardi
- 2001-2004 Participation in European research project 'Participation and the Dynamics of Social Positioning - The Case of Biotechnology. Images of Self and Other in Decision-Making Procedures' coordinated by Alfons Bora (University of Bielefeld), director of research unit at University of Trieste
- 1972 Collaboration with J.O. Urmson (Oxford, Corpus Christi College) on the revised edition of J.L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words
