Professor Bernadette Luciano

BA, MA (Stanford), PhD (Columbia)

Head of School

In: Cultures, Languages and Linguistics » Faculty of Arts

Biography

Bernadette Luciano is Professor of Italian in the Faculty of Arts. She joined the Italian Department in 1994 after having taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Columbia University; the University of Minnesota; California State University San Diego and Stanford University.

She has published articles and book chapters on Italian cinema; film adaptation; Italian women’s historical novels; women’s autobiographical writing; the theory and practice of translation and subtitling; and issues of identity, migration and transnationalism in literature and film. She has co-edited an interdisciplinary book on cross-cultural encounters between New Zealand and Europe. She is author of The Cinema of Silvio Soldini: Dream, Image, Voyage (2008) and of the co-authored book (with Susanna Scarparo), Reframing Italy: New Trends in Italian Women's Filmmaking (Purdue University Press, 2013).

Research | Current

Contemporary Italian cinema and documentary
Women’s lifewriting
Women’s activism
Mobility and Transnational cinema
Film adaptation
Translation and Subtitling

Teaching | Current

COMPLIT 702 Rethinking Autobiography

EUROPEAN 200 Screening Europe

EUROPEAN 300 Screening Europe

ITALIAN 107 Italian Language for Beginners 2

ITALIAN 702 Advanced Italian Translation Practice

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Luciano, B., & Scarparo, S. (2017). Maternal ambivalence in contemporary Italian cinema. In G. Lerner, D'Amelio M (Eds.) Italian motherhood on screen (pp. 45-70). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. 10.1007/978-3-319-56675-7_3
Luciano, B., & Scarparo, S. (2015). Regia: sostantivo femminile?. Quaderni del CSCI: Rivista annuale di cinema italiano, 11, 210-217. Related URL.
Chung, H. J., & Luciano, B. (2015). Autonomous Navigation? Multiplicity and Self-reflexive Aesthetics in Sergio Basso's documentary film Giallo a Milano and web-documentary Made in Chinatown. In C. Deprez, J. Pernin (Eds.) Post-1990 Documentary: Reconfiguring Independence (pp. 203-216). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Hilary Chung
Comand, M., Krasilovsky, A., Luciano, B., Russo, P., Selbo, J., & Tompkins, B. (2015). Italy. In J. Nelmes, J. Selbo (Eds.) Women screenwriters: An international guide (pp. 437-479). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Luciano, B. (2015). A short history of Italian women screenwriters. In J. Nelmes, J. Selbo (Eds.) Women screenwriters: An international guide (pp. 433-437). Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chung, H., & Luciano, B. (2014). The dis/locat/ing migrant as an agent of transposition: Borensztein’s Un cuento chino and Segre’s Io sono Li. Studies in European Cinema, 11 (3), 191-211. 10.1080/17411548.2014.972671
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Hilary Chung
Luciano, B., & Scarparo, S. (2014). Directing terramatta;. An interview with Costanza Quatriglio. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 19 (3), 284-292. 10.1080/1354571X.2014.897439
Luciano, B. (2014). Book Review: Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy: Between Private and Public Spheres by Katharine Mitchell and Helena Sanson. gender/sexuality/italy Journal, 1. Related URL.