Barbara Cauzzo De Luca
Premio Gadda Giovani
Comitato Territoriale per il Friuli-Venezia Giulia
After a long career as teacher of English, teacher trainer for pre-service and in-service courses (appointed by the Ministry, local authorities, teacher training college SSIS at the University of Udine), text-book writer and editor for major publishing houses, Barbara Cauzzo de Luca is now free-lance teacher, text-book writer and editor. She lives in Padua and has three grandchildren she enjoys spending time with. She likes cooking, gardening and travelling and she intends to devote more and more time to those activities.
Her published work spans across four decades which have seen the development in Italy of pre-service and in-service teacher training of English as a foreign language and later on Italian as a second language. She has published extensively in many areas (from literature to ESP), co-authoring among the most successful and popular textbooks used in secondary schools in Italy. Together with Umberta Grillo, Paola Pace and Silvana Ranzoli, she co-authored very innovative series of books in which theories of literature studies have been adapted to the needs of the Italian education system and have represented precious resources for teacher training and new approaches to the teaching of literature in secondary school: Language in Literature (Loescher, 1981), Views of Literature (Loescher, 1993), Short Cuts to Literature (Loescher, 1994), Literature and Beyond (Loescher, 1997), Fast Lane (Loescher, 1998), American Writers and Themes (Loescher, 2000).
With co-authors Deborah Ellis, Paola Pace, and Silvana Ranzoli, she published: Books and Bookmarks (Loescher, 2002); The Context – A Historical and Literary Companion (Loescher, 2003); Literature in Time (Loescher, 2005); Words that Speak (Loescher, 2006).
She has also published a reader on Conan Doyle in a reader series by Loescher to which she also contributed as a co-author with readers on Chesterton, Kipling, Hardy and Lawrence. She was the editor of a series of readers for Petrini, to which she also contributed with two publications as a co-author with Giorgio Poli and Rob Jeffcoate respectively: Brave New World (Petrini, 2001); Multicultural Themes, an anthology of literary texts in English (Petrini, 2007).
In recent years she has been working on Italian as L2; her latest work, co-authored with Cecilia Pisoni, is an anthology of Italian literature for secondary schools: Letture in gioco (Zanichelli, 2011).
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