Arianna Dagnino

Arianna Dagnino (born 1963, in Genoa) is an Italian and naturalized Australian writer, journalist, translator and researcher presently based in Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of the book Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility (Purdue University Press, 2015) and of the historical novel Fossili (Fazi Editore, 2010), a transcultural odyssey that blends history, scientific research and adventure in a plot set between Johannesburg, Cape Town, the Kalahari Desert and Zanzibar. Dagnino holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Sociology (with a special focus on Transcultural Studies, Creative Writing and World Literature from the University of South Australia and a Master's Degree in Foreign Contemporary Languages and Literatures from the Università degli Studi di Genova. With her books and articles she has contributed to the discussion on the socio-cultural effects of globalization, transnationalism, and information technology. She is currently working as a Lecturer at the University of British Columbia.

Drawing on the French sociologist Michel Maffesoli's conceptualization of postmodern forms of wandering, blurring of borders and fluidity of social belongings, in her book I Nuovi Nomadi (New Nomads, 1996) Dagnino contributed to the definition of the concept of neonomadismo (neonomadism or global nomadism). The neologism stands for the new existential approach and the new deterritorialized, itinerant life-style of the knowledge workers. I Nuovi Nomadi has been introduced as a reference textbook in several Italian universities; among them, l'Università della Sapienza in Rome and l'Università Statale in Milan. After a series of transnational experiences, Dagnino focused her research and writing activities on the theoretical approaches of transculture, transculturality and transculturalism applied to a socio-literary context and to creative practices. More specifically, in her doctoral dissertation she analyzed the relationship between creative writing, autobiography and transcultural phenomena as described by the main theorists of the transcultural – Fernando Ortiz (transculturation), Mikhail Epstein (transculture), and Wolfgang Welsch (transculturality).

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Peer-reviewed

Link: http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/firth/firth-conferences/border-crossings-2012/border-crossings-2012_home.cfm

Link: http://w3.unisa.edu.au/muslim-understanding/csaa2011/

Non peer-reviewed

Link: http://las.arts.ubc.ca/2014/arianna-dagnino-global-tango/

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