Marilia Jardim is a Semiotician, Cultural Researcher, and Educator, and an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London). With a previous background as a visual and stage artist, she is an alumna of the BA (Hons) Communication of the Arts of the Body (PUC-SP, Brazil), where she received a polymathic undergraduate education combining the Human, Social, Physical, and Biological Sciences.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, MPhil in Communication and Semiotics (PUC-SP / CPS, Brazil) and PhD in Communications and Media (University of Westminster / CAMRI). With past research interests in the body and fashion rhythms in both historical contexts and emerging identity dynamics in the contemporary urban and online environments, her work showcases eclectic research interests in Poststructuralism, Post-colonial Theory and Religious Studies fused on interdisciplinary dialogues beginning at the many paradigms of semiotic theories.
Her recent research focuses on the constructions of “Truth” in a post–veridiction world, the cyclical aspect of epistemological discourses, and the transposition of semiotic concepts as tools supporting interdisciplinary pedagogies in tune with the 21st-century learners and their needs.
