Originally from Austria, Luca got his BA in English at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA. In 2020, he published a co-authored paper in Feminist German Studies titled "The Language of Flowers and the (Re)productive Female Body in Hedwig Dohm’s Werde, die Du bist!" Luca served as the graduate assistant for the Duke in Berlin summer program in 2022 and 2023. This past spring, Luca received the Frank Borchardt Teaching Award and was among the top 5% of undergraduate instructors in Trinity College at Duke University. He is working on post-WW2 Austrian prose with a focus on the legacy of the Habsburg Empire, questions of gender, and architectural motifs.