Siri Nergaard is a Norwegian scholar of

translation Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...

and

Scandinavian studies Scandinavian studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of area studies, mainly in the United States and Germany, that primarily focuses on the Scandinavian languages (also known as North Germanic languages) and cultural studies pertaining to ...

. Siri Nergaard graduated from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top univers ...

and then the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

. Nergaard taught

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

at the

University of Florence The University of Florence ( Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first univer ...

. Currently she lectures at the

University of South-Eastern Norway The University of South-Eastern Norway ( no, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge), commonly known as USN, is a Norwegian state university. It has campuses in Bø, Telemark, Porsgrunn, Notodden, Rauland, Drammen, Hønefoss, Kongsberg and Horten. USN ...

at the Vestfold campus. Her research areas include

semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes (semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something, ...

, cultural studies, and

translation studies Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and Language localisation, localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borr ...

. In 2011 she became the editor-in-chief of '' Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal''. Together with

Stefano Arduini Stefano Arduini (born 1956) is a scholar of linguistics, rhetoric, semiotics and translation. He is Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Rome Link Campus where he is the director the Publishing Professionals Master's degree. He teac ...

she is credited for coining the concept of

post-translation studies Post-translation studies is a concept which refers to a stage in the development of translation studies during the 20th century. The term was coined in 2011 by Siri Nergaard and Stefano Arduini in the first issue of '' Translation: A Transdiscipli ...

. Nergaard has also translated works by

Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel '' The Name of th ...

into Norwegian.

Selected works

* ''Translation and Transmigration'' (Routledge 2021) * ''La costruzione di una cultura. La letteratura norvegese in traduzione italiana'' (Guaraldi 2004) * ''La teoria della traduzione nella storia'' (editor; Bompiani 2014) * ''Teorie contemporanee della traduzione'' (editor; Bompiani 2014) * ''Studi culturali: temi e prospettive a confronto'' (co-editor; McGraw-Hill 2007) * ''Spettri del potere: ideologia, identità, traduzione negli studi culturali'' (co-editor; Meltemi 2002)

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Author Siri Nergaard
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University of Oslo alumni University of Bologna alumni Academic staff of the University of Florence Academic staff of Vestfold University College Norwegian expatriates in Italy Translation scholars Translators to Norwegian Translators from Italian Scandinavian studies scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Norway-translator-stub