Antonetta L. Bruno’s research explores linguistic anthropology, religions and popular culture. Among her publications there are studies on shamanic language, language strategies, the switching levels of the speech and the emotional transformation in religious contexts within Korean culture, food, film, and popular culture.  Bruno has published over than 50 articles. Her books include The Gate of Words, Language in the Rituals of Korean Shamans. Sociolinguistic Perspective (CNWS, University Leiden Press, 2002), as well as a volume on Korean Religious Practice (Princeton University Press), Canti sciamanici coreani (Torino: UTET, 2006). She is also author of Corso di Lingua coreana (Hoepli) and Metodologia di traduzione tra coreano-italiano e viceversa (La Sapienza Orientalia).

Bruno is 2011-2015 President of AKSE (Association of Korean Studies in Europe). 2011-2015 Chairperson of Korea Foundation Fellowship Committee for EU. Since 2008 to present Board Member Abroad, Korean Society of Cultural Anthropology. 2010-2012 Member of Commissione Ricerca Scientifica dell‘Universitá di Roma “Sapienza” and Board member in various international journals. She holds a Ph.D. on Anthropology from Seoul National University, and another Ph.D. from the Centre for Korean Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

Since 2006 Associate Professor at Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Roma Sapienza. In 2012 she has successfully passed Habitation for the position of Full Professorship. She has been invited as key note speaker at several international conferences, distinguished lecture at Harvard and visiting scholar at several universities in Korea and in USA.