Umberto Eco
| Address: | Italy |
Umberto Eco is Emeritus Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and visiting Professor at numerous distinguished universities in Europe and the USA. Eco has written extensively on aesthetics, medieval studies, language, epistemology, theory of literature, mass media and popular culture, avant-garde poetics, and James Joyce. Eco has also gained international fame beyond academia with several best-selling novels including the most recently published Number Zero