Irene Portis-Winner is a retired Professor of Anthropology from Massachusetts College of Art. Prof Portis-Winner holds an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles and book chapters on the subject of cultural anthropology based on fieldwork in Slovenia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and among Slovene immigrants in Cleveland and other areas in the USA. In all her works she has investigated and applied semiotic concepts that are relevant for anthropological analysis, including the concepts of the Prague school and Jakobson in his American years, the Moscow-Tartu School, Bakhtin and Peirce. She Irene Portis-Winner is a retired Professor of Anthropology from Massachusetts College of Art. Prof Portis-Winner holds an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles and book chapters on the subject of cultural anthropology based on fieldwork in Slovenia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and among Slovene immigrants in Cleveland and other areas in the USA. In all her works she has investigated and applied semiotic concepts that are relevant for anthropological analysis, including the concepts of the Prague school and Jakobson in his American years, the Moscow-Tartu School, Bakhtin and Peirce. She has lectured widely in Europe and the USA and has taught at various universities, including Tufts, Wayne, Charles and Masaryk Universities, and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Prof. Portis-Winner was married to Thomas G. Winner until his death. They worked together on semiotics research....more