Welcome to the Department of Italian at the University of Warwick!

The Department of Italian is a friendly and vibrant department that offers a range of stimulating degree programmes in Italian. The Department achieved outstanding results in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), being ranked third nationally, with 60% of its research publications assessed as 'world leading' and 'internationally excellent'. The Department's research culture is distinctive for its breadth and chronological range, ranging from Dante to twenty-first century Italophone writing. Alongside the breadth of individual scholarship, the Department has developed three key areas of research collaboration: 

• the reception of classical and medieval authors in the Renaissance, including Aristotle, Plato, Dante and their commentators
  
• the rise of the novel and development of reading cultures in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• the literature of migration and mobility in twentieth-century Italy

Our teaching was placed in the highest category in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment. All of the Department's teaching is research-led, and it has an excellent record in Italian language teaching, both for beginners and advanced students. Modules cover areas of Italian culture and textual production from medieval and renaissance times to today.

The Department comprises six permanent academic staff, two post-doctoral research fellows, two teaching fellows, three postgraduate bursary teaching assistants, and a Departmental Secretary. Each academic member of staff is an active researcher, and regularly publishes books and articles with leading presses and in international journals (see research profiles). The Department currently supervises twelve postgraduate research students.

Facilities are extensive and up-to-date, including excellent library holdings, a Language Centre, our own seminar room equipped with electronic whiteboard and data-projection, and a purpose-built Transnational Resources Centre designed for the exclusive use of students taking modern language degrees. The Italian department is located on the fourth floor of the Humanities building on central campus.

POST AVAILABLE: Assistant Professor, from October 2010

CINEFORUM - alternative italies

'DA SODOMA A GOMORRA' Conference, Jan. 2010 CLICK HERE