About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Testo e Senso is an interdisciplinary scientific journal born in 1998 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. It deals with texts, old and new media, and cultural systems stemming from them. Its central theme is the reflection on the problem of a new statute of text-related disciplines. In doing so, it relies on a plurality of points of view and theoretical and methodological interactions ranging from literary theory and criticism, philology, linguistics, cultural studies, communication studies, cognitive science, neuroscience, digital humanities.

The journal is therefore a meeting place available for discussion and controversy of ancient university tradition, a place of openness, welcome, freedom in which theory, criticism, poetics are articulated moments of intellectual activity intended to discover new areas and methods of knowledge, new paths of invention without any claim to completeness or exhaustiveness.

The model – even if we do not aim to fix a predetermined one – could be the encyclopedia which, in order to exist, shall remain open or rather unfinished, multiply itself in its authors and in its voices, adopt the open taxonomies of provisional definitions, of pluralities, of polysemies, of thought in movement. In the conviction that in inter-actions/sections we can recover the path towards meaning.