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Ioana Sion studied English and Romance languages at the University of Vienna and Bucharest. Trained as a language teacher, translator and interpreter, she worked on drama and film translation, adaptation and subtitling for various TV stations in Europe. She is now working in Canada as a database specialist, teaching assistant and co-editor of Transverse, a peer-reviewed journal of comparative literature. She has several publications on the theatre of Jean Cocteau, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Paul Claudel, and most recently a collection of essays on theatre and the dramatic arts Precarious Ontologies (Mediauno, 2005). She is now finishing a PhD in comparative literature at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on descensus ad inferos in modern French and Italian drama.