About
Ignasi Ribó (born 1971 in Barcelona) is a Catalan writer and scholar. He is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University, in Chiang Rai, Thailand. His research lies at the intersection of ecosemiotics, ecocriticism, and comparative literature, and has been published in journals such as Poetics Today, ISLE, Semiotica, and Environmental Education Research.
He is the author of the textbooks Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative (Open Book Publishers, 2019) and Into Semiotics: Understanding Signs, Meaning, and Communication (Mae Fah Luang University Learning Innovation Institute, in press), and the editor of Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries (Lexington Books, 2025). In Habitat: The Ecopolitical Nation (2012) he developed the ecopolitical theory of the habitat-nation. He has also written five novels and a play that won the Joan Santamaria Prize.
He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Education and Sustainability from the University of Gothenburg, and graduate degrees in Economics (ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull), Political Science (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris), and Literary Theory (Universitat de Barcelona). More on Wikipedia.