Dr. Luisa Miceli is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. She earned a BA Honours degree in Linguistics and Archaeology from the Australian National University and a PhD in Historical Linguistics from the University of Western Australia. Miceli has lectured in linguistics since 2004, holding contracts at the Australian National University, the Università degli Studi di Genova, and the University of Western Australia, where she has served as Lecturer since 2017. She was Chair of Linguistics from 2021 to 2022, Coordinator of the Linguistics Major from 2020 to 2022, and oversees the Linguistics Work Integrated Learning program, enabling students to gain professional experience with organizations including community language centres, the WA Department of Education, and RTRFM radio. She teaches a wide range of units in the Linguistics major and supervises Honours students on community-led projects in collaboration with Bundiyarra Irra Wangga Language Centre.

Miceli's research encompasses language change and the reconstruction of the linguistic past, language processing in bilinguals, and Australian Indigenous languages, with a focus on bilingual processing biases and mechanisms of language change applicable to multilingual contexts like those of Australian Indigenous languages. She collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, including archaeolinguistics, and serves as a Member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary on etymologies from Australian Indigenous languages. Her key publications include editing 'Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics' (2024, with B. Evans and M. K. Gallego), 'Australian languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the past' (2023, with C. Bowern), 'Australian Archaeolinguistics' (2025, with C. Bowern et al.), and 'Decolonizing the introductory linguistics curriculum' (2025, with C. Rodriguez Louro et al.). Her PhD thesis is 'Unbalanced comparative patterns in historical linguistics' (2019). Miceli has received the UWA Work Integrated Learning Award (2023), School of Social Sciences Programs that Enhance Learning (2022), Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2021, team award), and UWA Guild Students' Choice Awards (2020, 2019). She created the public event 'Language Across Time' for high school students in 2019.

Professional Email: luisa.miceli@uwa.edu.au