Dani Cádiz Bedini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on literary exchanges and anticolonial activism in the nineteenth century, with a special interest on migrations, border crossings, empire, and translation. Her book project, tentatively titled Crossing the Americas: Empire, Race, and Translation in the Long Nineteenth Century, foregrounds diverse and complex modes of translation strategies that were harnessed as anti-imperialist work in the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her manuscript focuses on points of contact between Anglophone and Hispanophone literary cultures in the wake of the Mexican-American War, highlighting exchanges between African American, Indigenous, Latin American and North American proto-Latina/o communities. In her research and teaching Dani draws on broad multilingual and transnational archives that include correspondence, diaries, novels, graphic arts, periodicals, theory, and poetry that span a wide geographic range—from Argentina to Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States.
Dani's writing and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American Quarterly, MELUS and American Periodicals. She’s also a frequent contributor to the global arts magazine, the Online Gallery.
