Professor Bernadette Luciano

Biography

Bernadette Luciano is Professor of Italian, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean (International) 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).

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