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.