Susan Petrilli (bn. Adelaide, Australia) teaches Semiotics and Semiotics of Translation at the University of Bari, Italy, and is Visiting Research Fellow at University of Adelaide, Australia. Her most recent publications include "Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective" (Transaction, 2010), "Expression and Interpretation in Language" (Transaction, 2012)," The Self as a Sign, the World and the Other" (Transaction, 2013)," Sign Studies and Semioethic"s (Mouton De Gruyter, 2014) "The Global World and Its Manifold Faces" (Peter Lang, 2016).