Vaggione, Alicia


Undergraduate -Postgraduate education: 
Bachelor's Degree in Modern Literature. Master's degree in Sociosemiotics. Ph.D. in Semiotics.

Teaching position(s) at the FCS: 
Head Interim Professor in the area of Semiotics of the Center for Advanced Studies. Secondary assignment in Seminary of Practical Training II (Sociology Degree).



Key words: 
Esthetic languages. Culture and illness. Bodies.

Lines of investigation: 
Semiotics and literature. Cultural representations of illness.

Bonding capabilities: 
I have participated in instances of exchange with professionals from Rawson Hospital in relation to my doctoral thesis about HIV/AIDS narratives.

Cyt expertise: 
Her research deals with the link between semiotics and artistic languages, mainly in literature, paying special attention to the "I" narratives, the relations between body, culture and illness, the technical interventions on bodies, among other related themes.

Current research project/program: 
Research director of Consolidar project "Bio(s) and body(s): Latinamerican fictions before a world under threat", SeCyT (Office of Science and Technology), UNC (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba).