Short biography
Alexander Zinna is professor of semiotics at the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail. He was a researcher in the laboratory directed by Algirdas Julien Greimas at the EHESS in Paris and took his PhD at the University of Bologna with Umberto Eco as director. His field of research ranges from the semiotics of texts and objects to new technologies. Among his publications - Elementi di Semiotica generativa (in collaboration with Francesco Marsciani) and Le interfacce degli oggetti di scrittura: Teoria del linguaggio e ipertesti.