Bernadette Mary Luciano is a New Zealand

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and

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academic, and a full professor at the

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. Luciano serves as Italian

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Academic career

After a 1990 PhD thesis titled '' 'Porta and Dante: a study of

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's translations from the "Inferno"' '' at

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, Luciano worked in many American universities, before moving to the

and rising to full professor.

Selected works

* Luciano, Bernadette, and Susanna Scarparo. Reframing Italy: New Trends in Italian Women's Filmmaking.

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, 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."

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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.

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, 2002.

References

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