Rossella Riccobono

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Who is Rossella Riccobono?

Rossella M. Riccobono was born in Italy (Belluno) on 23 September 1965, attended full time education (Liceo scientifico) and then studied for her MA in Modern Languages (English and French Language and Literature) in Padova.

She spent most of her summers in Scotland from about 1984, and she then moved to Edinburgh with an Erasmus scholarship in 1988 to complete her MA thesis on Scottish Language and Literature. In 1991 she started a PhD at The University of Edinburgh whilst also working in the Italian Department as a Foreign Language assistant until 1997. She was awarded her PhD in 2000.

She got married in 1993 and had two children (Gianluca in 1997, now aged 20, and Annalisa in 2001, now aged 16).

From 1998 she lived for three years in the Middle East (Dubai) with her family, then moved to Australia where her daughter was born, and finally to New Zealand, where she worked for two years as a Lecturer in Italian at The Victoria University in Wellington.

She found her passion in food as therapy and qualified as a Nutritional Therapist when her children were still young, in 2001. She discovered yoga in 2002 in Wellington and never stopped practising it - and qualified as an Iyengar Yoga Tutor in 2009. Since then Therapy has truly become an integral part of her life, both for self-help and help to others (family, friends and the public).

She moved back to Scotland in 2004 when she was appointed Lecturer in Italian at the University of St Andrews, where she still works. She teaches and researches contemporary Italian literature and cinema, modernist and contemporary poetry.

She has travelled extensively the world first with her husband, then alone or with family, partners or friends.

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