Bernadette Luciano

Bernadette Mary Luciano is a New Zealand Italian language and culture academic, and a full professor at the University of Auckland. Luciano serves as Italian honorary consul in Auckland.

Academic career

After a 1990 PhD thesis titled 'Porta and Dante: a study of Porta's translations from the "Inferno"' at Columbia University, Luciano worked in many American universities, before moving to the University of Auckland and rising to full professor.

Selected works Luciano, Bernadette, and Susanna Scarparo. Reframing Italy: New Trends in Italian Women's Filmmaking. Purdue University Press, 2013. Luciano, Bernadette. "The Diaries of Sibilla Aleramo: Constructing Female Subjectivity." Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon (1996): 95–110. Luciano, Bernadette, and Susanna Scarparo. "Gendering mobility and migration in contemporary Italian cinema." The Italianist 30, no. 2 (2010): 165–182. Luciano, Bernadette. "Rethinking identity in the cinema of Silvio Soldini." In Forum for Modern Language Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 341–351. Oxford University Press, 2002.