Dr d’Arcangeli is originally from Rome, where she worked in industry for a few years before leaving her last position (in the Cecchi Gori Group) to start her academic career at Strathclyde University and at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. In 2008 Luciana moved to Australia, to work at Flinders University, in Adelaide, where she was Cassamarca Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies and finally Head of Italian, and now holds full academic status. Via the Flinders University Languages Outreach Program Dr d’Arcangeli was also Adjunct at the University of Adelaide, effectively teaching and managing a dual-university programme.
Luciana is a HE Academy Fellow (2001), and her teaching experience spans from Italian theatre, cinema, and culture to Italian language, interpreting and translation at all levels. Today Dr d’Arcangeli teaches at AUR and, being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and a Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (UK), she continues to work as language consultant, and translator.
Dr d'Arcangeli is the author of I personaggi femminili nel teatro di Dario Fo e Franca Rame (Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, Strumenti di letteratura italiana, n.32, 2009, 336). Luciana has also published widely in journals, and edited several books and special journal issues on Italian cinema and theatre – many stemming from the international conferences she convened in the UK and in Australia. In 2023 Luciana published, with Claire Kennedy and Daniela Cavallaro,Staging Violence Against Women and Girls (Bloomsbury Methuen, London). This is the last outcome of the research project titled "Indelible (Eng)/Indelibile (It): The Representation of (In)visible Violence Against Women and their Resistance", funded by the Australasian Center for Italian Studies whose Inaugural Visual and Performance Studies Research Group was created by d’Arcangeli in 2018, and coordinated by her until the end of the project in 2021.
Currently d'Arcangeli is working on the translation into English of Franca Rame’s plays.
Among Dr d’Arcangeli’s awards are the Italia nel Mondo prize (2016) and the Gold Medal and Merit Award from the Dante Alighieri Society (2017), both in recognition of professional excellence in disseminating Italian culture as President of the Dante Alighieri Society of South Australia, and the Prize for Italian Literary Translation (2018) from the Melbourne Italian Institute of Culture.
Professional Media Links
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Luciana_DArcangeli
Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/LucianadArcangeli
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucianadarcangeli/
Chartered Institute of Linguists: https://www.ciol.org.uk/language-specialist/profile/27708/37/6183
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
Dr d’Arcangeli is working on her book The Theatre of Franca Rame: plays and monologues (Aracne, Rome, TBA).
Books
- I personaggi femminili nel teatro di Dario Fo e Franca Rame (Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, Strumenti di letteratura italiana, n.32, 2009, 336)
Co-edited Books
- Co-editor with Daniela Cavallaro (Auckland) and Claire Kennedy (Griffith) of Staging Violence Against Women and Girls, (Bloomsbury Methuen, London, 2023)
- Co-editor with Daniela Cavallaro (Auckland) and Claire Kennedy (Griffith) of Atti di accusa. Testi teatrali e interviste sulla rappresentazione della violenza contro le donne, (Aracne, Donne dietro le quinte, Rome, 2021, 368)
- Co-editor with William Hope and Silvana Serra of Un nuovo cinema politico italiano? Volume II: stato e società, passato e presente (Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2013, 247)
- Co-editor with Graham Tulloch and Karen Agutter for Sicily and Scotland: Where Extremes Meet (Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2014, 160)
- Co-editor with William Hope and Silvana Serra for Un nuovo cinema politico italiano? Volume I: genere, lavoro, immigrazione (Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2013, 224)
Edited Special Issues of Refereed Journals
- Guest editor with Sally Hill (Victoria, Wellington) of the special issue Indelible: Violence Against Women and Their Resistance to It in the Visual and Performing Arts in Italy and Beyond of the e-journal Violence Against Women, Volume 29, Issue 8, 2023
- Guest editor with Claire Kennedy (Griffith) of the special issue Indelible/Indelebile: Representation of in the Arts of (In)Visible Violence Against Women and their Resistance of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review (FULGOR), Volume 6, Issue 3, 2021
- Guest editor with Laura Lori (Melbourne) of the special issue Postcolonial Italy of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review (FULGOR), Volume 6, Issue 2, 2020 Guest editor with Tets Kimura (Flinders) of the special issue Intercultural aspects of interpreting, translation and communication of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review (FULGOR), Volume 6, Issue 1, 2019
- Guest editor with Sally Hill (Victoria, Wellington) and Claire Kennedy (Griffith) of the special issue An Eye on Italy on Italian Cinema of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review (FULGOR), Volume 5, Issue 3, 2018
- Guest editor with Annamaria Pagliaro (Monash) of the special issue Dario Fo & Franca Rame. Beyond the Rules of the journal Spunti e Ricerche, Volume 31, 2016, published in 2017
- Guest editor of the special issue Italian Cinema of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review (FULGOR), Volume 5, Issue 1, 2016
All past publications (including articles, chapters, interviews, etc.) are listed on Orcid -https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2080-1430