Arianna Dagnino’s cultural and professional experience crosses many borders and five continents. Born in Genoa, Italy, she studied in London, Moscow and Boston before entering journalism and international reporting, which led her to spend several years in Southern Africa and Australia and travel across China and the Middle East (see her travel website, Nomads.it).
She currently lectures in Italian Studies and conducts research in the fields of Transcultural Studies and Translation Studies at the University of British Columbia after earning a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of South Australia and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ottawa/School of Translation.
She has published books – both in Italian and English – of fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as on digital technologies, global mobility and transcultural flows. Among them, Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility (Purdue UP, 2015), Fossili (Fazi Editore, 2010), Jesus Christ Cyberstar (Ipoc, 2009/Edra 2004), Uoma (Mursia, 2000) and I nuovi nomadi (Castelvecchi, 1996).
Dagnino is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, Australia’s National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, and the Society of Translators and Interpreters of British Columbia. She holds Italian, Australian and Canadian citizenship.
Settler in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Contact: arianna.dagnino at ubc dot ca or aridag at me dot com
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