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Teresa de Lauretis is an Italian-born author and Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her doctorate in Modern Languages and Literatures from Bocconi University in Milan before coming to the United States. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, she taught in Colorado and Wisconsin. She has held Visiting Professorships at universities worldwide including ones in Canada, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. She received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from the University of Lund in Sweden in 2005.
Her areas of interest include semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, lesbian and queer studies. She has also written on science fiction. Fluent in both English and Italian, she writes in both languages. Additionally, her work has been translated into fourteen other languages.
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