Fernando Torres Andacht is a

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

an-born semiotician. Andacht studied Letters at the

University of the Republic The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and t ...

, graduating in 1978. Afterwards he obtained an MA in General Linguistics at

Ohio University Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subseq ...

(1981), a Doctorate in Latin American Studies at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

, Norway (1998) and a PhD in Communication and Information,

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, Porto Alegre (2001). Currently he is a Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the

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.Bio of Fernando Andacht
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A Semiotic Reflection on Selfinterpretation and Identity
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* University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni Ohio University alumni University of Bergen alumni Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul alumni University of Ottawa faculty Semioticians {{Uruguay-academic-bio-stubddfb