Teaching and education: the passionate practice of a semiotician

This text aims at making a brief record of some points of the exemplary professional journey - so deeply committed to the teaching and formation of her students in the University - of professor Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros. Without making any scientific claims, our presentation would simply like to pay tribute to her lifetime carreer, which explains the adoption of a very personal and affective tone, typical of the discourses of admiration. In any case, in an attempt to make this "Diana Luz style of being a teacher" a little more objective, we also propose a brief analysis of some testimonials collected among her former students.