Dr Massimo Leone
- Visiting Scholar
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Department of Philosophy, University of Turin.
Endeavour Research Visiting Scholar at the School of English, Communication, and Performance Studies, Monash University.
Massimo Leone is Research Professor of Semiotics and Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, Italy. He graduated in Communication Studies from the University of Siena, and holds a DEA in History and Semiotics of Texts and Documents from Paris VII, an MPhil in Word and Image Studies from Trinity College Dublin, a PhD in Religious Studies from the Sorbonne, a PhD in Art History from the University of Fribourg (CH). He was visiting scholar at the CNRS in Paris, at the CSIC in Madrid and Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley (USA). In 2009-2010, he will be Endeavour Research Visiting Scholar at the School of English, Performance, and Communication Studies at Monash University, Melbourne (AU). His work focuses on the role of religion in contemporary cultures. Massimo Leone has authored two books (Religious Conversion and Identity, Routledge 2004 and Saints and Signs, Walter de Gruyter 2009) and more than 100 papers in semiotics and religious studies. He has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe and USA.While at Monash he will be completing a research project on “the interpretation of sacred texts and the construction of moral discourse in contemporary multicultural societies”.
Dr Leone will present a paper at the 2009 Communication Commons Seminar Series. Details Here.