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Andrea Ciribuco

Young Academy Ireland Member

Lecturer University of Galway

Andrea Ciribuco is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Galway. His interests include translation, intercultural communication, and migrant autobiographies. After completing his PhD at NUI Galway in 2016, he received an IRC/MSCA CAROLINE fellowship for a project on the multilingual experience of asylum seekers in Italy. As part of the project, he spent two years on secondment at the NGO Tamat, working in social inclusion. In 2021, he became co-investigator of a project funded by the British Academy at UCL, on intercultural mediation in the Italian COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Currently, he is PI of the IRC Laureate project “Rural Villages, Migration, and Intercultural Communication”.    

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