SSH/ESPO Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication (ESPO)
SSH/ESPO/COMU Ecole de Communication (COMU)
SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)
SSH/RSCS Institut de recherche Religions, spiritualités, cultures, sociétés (RSCS)
SSH/ILC/PCOM Pôle de recherche en communication (PCOM)
Andrea Catellani studied communications sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy). He obtained a doctorate in Semiotics in 2006, with a thesis on early-modern illustrated spiritual literature. He has taught semiotics and communication analysis in different universities. Between 2007 and 2009 he wasa postdoctoral fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium), as a member of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA). He has been an elected member of the administration board of SFSIC (Société française des sciences de l'information et de la communication). He is now a professor in communication, semiotics, communication ethics, and public relations at UCLouvain. He is a member and previous director of LASCO (Laboratory for the Analysis of Organisational Communication Systems, UCLouvain), and member of the research institute Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS). He is the president of the Jury of the Master in Communication of UCLouvain. He is co-founder and facilitator of the study and research group "Environment, Communication, Science, and Society" (SFSIC).
Research: He has published several articles and texts in different languages on semiotics, environmental communication, contemporary communication, communication ethics, early-modern cultural analysis, and religious communication. He is interested in analyzing discourses and the relation of text and image; his approach is inspired by the tradition of semiotics. His current research is on environmental communication, climate change communication, discourses on human-nonhuman relations, and the discourses on responsibility and values by different types of organizations. Another area of research is the relation between contemporary communication, in particular digital communication, and religion.
He is a member of the Council for Sustainable Development of UCLouvain.
Postal address
COMU - Collège Léon DupriezL2.03.02
Ruelle de la Lanterne magique 14
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
