Bernadette Luciano

{{Short description|New Zealand Italian language and culture academic}}

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| fields = Italian studies

| workplaces = University of California, Santa Barbara, Columbia University, the University of Minnesota, California State University San Diego, Stanford University, University of Auckland

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| alma_mater = Columbia University

| thesis1_title = Porta and Dante: a study of Porta's translations from the "Inferno"

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| thesis1_year = 1990

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| doctoral_students = Paula Green{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/84712112/raising-money-for-kindy-teacher-affected-by-italian-earthquake|title=Raising money for kindy teacher affected by Italian earthquake|website=Stuff|date=29 September 2016}}{{Cite thesis |title=Writing home to her mother and father: Fabrizia Ramondino’s Althénopis and Clara Sereni’s Casalinghitudine |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/2290 |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland |date=2004 |degree=Doctoral |language=en |first=Paula |last=Green}}

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Bernadette Mary Luciano is a New Zealand Italian language and culture academic, and a full professor at the University of Auckland.{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/b-luciano|title=Professor Bernadette Luciano - The University of Auckland|website=www.arts.auckland.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Bernadette Luciano Profile |author= |publisher=University of Auckland |date=n.d. |access-date=20 May 2022 |url= https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/b-luciano}} Luciano serves as Italian honorary consul in Auckland.{{cite web|url=https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countries-and-regions/europe/italy/consulate-of-italy/|title=Consulate of Italy|first=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and|last=Trade|website=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade}}{{cite web|url=https://ambwellington.esteri.it/ambasciata_wellington/en/ambasciata/news/dall_ambasciata/2018/03/assenza-del-console-onorario-a.html|title=HONORARY CONSULATE OF ITALY - AUCKLAND - TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF THE HONORARY CONSUL|website=ambwellington.esteri.it}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/wtapress/about/news/tradurre-e-un-bacio-the-kiss-of-translation|title=Tradurre è un bacio – The Kiss of Translation - Wai-te-ata Press - Victoria University of Wellington|website=www.victoria.ac.nz}}

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.

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