Roberta Kevelson
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| Semiotics of Ideal Beauty |
Roberta Kevelson was an important authority on the pragmatism theories of Charles Sanders Peirce, and on semiotics in general. A professor at Penn State and William and Mary, she wrote and published several books, including High Fives, The Inverted Pyramid, and the Law as the System of Signs. Possibly her most famous study was her book Peirce and the Mark of the Gryphon. She also was one of the founding members of the Semiotic Society.
Roberta was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1931. Although married at 17, she returned to college in the 1960s. In 1978, she received her pHD from Brown University in Semiotics. During her postdoctoral tenure at Yale University in 1979-81, she inroduced legal Semiotics to the academic community. In order to continue development of legal Semiotics, she established an international, crossdisciplanary center in 1984.
