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Teresa de Lauretis was born and educated in Italy. Shortly after receiving her PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from Bocconi University in Milan, she moved to the United States and held academic positions at the Universities of Colorado, California and Wisconsin, where she taught Italian language and literature, semiotics, feminist studies and film studies. In 1985 she was appointed Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has also held visiting professorships in Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Chile, Argentina and the United States. Among her many honours, she received honorary doctorates from the University of Lund (Sweden) and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina). Since retiring in 2008 as Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness, de Lauretis has continued to give lectures and seminars internationally. In the summer semester of 2017, she was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin.

De Lauretis is the author of ten books, including Alice Doesn't, Technologies of Gender, The Practice of Love, Figures of Resistance, Freud's Drive, and more than one hundred essays originally written in English or Italian. She has edited or co-edited three collections of essays and two special issues of journals, including "Queer Theory" on differences. Anthologies of her work have been published in French, Spanish, Italian and Finnish, and her writings have been translated into 14 other languages. A symposium on her work was held at Swarthmore College on 5-7 November 2015. She is currently working on a theory of reading and spectatorship based on figurality and the psychoanalytic concepts of transference and translation. In progress: "The Sum of All Her Yesterdays", a reading of Djuna Barnes' The Antiphon. (2019)

Works

• La sintassi del desiderio: struttura e forme del romanzo sveviano, Ravenna: Longo, 1976, 175 pp. (Italian)

Italian academic (born 1938)

Teresa de Lauretis (Italian:[teˈrɛːzadelauˈrɛːtis]; born 1938 in Bologna) is an Italian author and Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, women's studies, lesbian- and queer studies. She has also written on science fiction. Fluent in English and Italian, she writes in both languages. Additionally, her work has been translated into sixteen other languages.

De Lauretis received her doctorate in Modern Languages and Literatures from Bocconi University in Milan before coming to the United States. She joined the History of Consciousness with Hayden White, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson and Angela Davis. Has held Visiting Professorships at universities worldwide including ones in Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Argentina, Chile, France, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Mexico and the Netherlands. She currently lives in San Francisco, CA, but often spends time in Italy and the Netherlands.

Theories

De Lauretis' account of subjectivity as a product of "being subject/ed to semiosis" (i.e., making meanings and being made by them) helps to theoretically resolve and overcome the tension between the human action (agency) and structure. She makes use of Umberto Eco's reading of C.S. Peirce in order to establish her notion of semiotics of experience. She brings corporeality back to the discourse on the constitution of subjectivity which has been conceived mainly in the linguistic terms. Her semiotics is not just the semiotics of language but also the semiotics of visual images and non-verbal practices. Her (Peircean) "habit" or "habit-change" is often compared to Bourdieu's notion of habitus.

Michel Foucault’s analysis of body excludes the consideration of the specificity of the female body that many feminists have criticized. Supplementing

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Teresa de Lauretis (born 1938) is an Italian author and American academic best-known for coining the term queer theory.

Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, women's studies, lesbian- and queer studies.

She has also written on science fiction.

She joined the History of Consciousness with Hayden White, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson and Angela Davis.

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