Teresa de Lauretis

Teresa de Lauretis (29 November 1938 – 2 February 2026) was an Italian author and academic who was a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her areas of interest included semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, women's studies, lesbian and queer studies. She also wrote on science fiction. Fluent in English and Italian, she wrote in both languages. Additionally, her work has been translated into 16 other languages.