Prof. Dr. Clare Vassallo

A graduate of Philosophy, Linguistics and English Literature from the University of Malta, Professor Dr Clare Vassallo pursued her interest in the interface of these three areas at the University of Bologna, Italy where she was awarded a scholarship to obtain her Ph.D in Semiotics under the tutorship of Prof. Umberto Eco in 1996. The emphasis of her research was in the field of Semiotics as literary and cultural theory and as theory of knowledge, She is Full Professor of Semiotics and Translation Studies in the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Malta.