Siri Nergaard


Siri Nergaard is a Norwegian scholar of translation and Scandinavian studies.
Siri Nergaard graduated from the University of Oslo and then the University of Bologna. Nergaard taught Norwegian at the University of Florence. Currently she lectures at the University of South-Eastern Norway at the Vestfold campus. Her research areas include semiotics, cultural studies, and translation studies. In 2011 she became the editor-in-chief of Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal. Together with Stefano Arduini she is credited for coining the concept of post-translation studies. Nergaard has also translated works by Umberto Eco into Norwegian.

Selected works

  • Translation and Transmigration
  • La costruzione di una cultura. La letteratura norvegese in traduzione italiana
  • La teoria della traduzione nella storia
  • Teorie contemporanee della traduzione
  • Studi culturali: temi e prospettive a confronto
  • ''Spettri del potere: ideologia, identità, traduzione negli studi culturali''