Donato Santeramo is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Drama and is associated with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. He teaches Semiotics, Mafia Culture, Dante, Pirandello’s Theatre, and Semiotics of the Arts at LLCU. He also holds appointments at the University of Rome II and at Middlebury College, VT (Summer Language Schools) where he teaches graduate courses in Theatre, Italian literature and Semiotics. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Queen’s Alumnae Teaching Award.
His research focuses primarily on the areas of 20th-century European theatre and literature, literary studies, semiotics and diaspora studies. He has published extensively on Italian literature, theatre, film and Semiotics. Dr. Santeramo has translated and staged works of contemporary Italian playwrights in Kingston, and supplied the literal translation of Eduardo De Filippo’s Napoli milionaria! from the Neapolitan to English for the Stratford Festival in 2018. Santeramo has been named the Artistic Director of the Matera Film Festival. He has also participated in several creative and artistic endeavors including the art exhibit Chromosomes (Rome 2008 and Lisbon 2009) and co-edited the book Red Cars – An Original Screenplay by David Cronenberg.