Warwick Italian was ranked third nationally in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), with a high proportion of its research assessed as world-leading and internationally excellent. Its research culture is distinctive for its breadth and chronological range, extending from Dante to twenty-first century Italophone writing. Particular strengths include:

• Dante studies (Gilson, Camilletti)
• Renaissance studies, especially the reception of classical and vernacular authors (Gilson, Lines, Vanhaelen)
• philosophy, theology and their contexts, c. 1250-c.1700 (Gilson, Lines, Vanhaelen)
• the history of the novel, in Italian and comparative perspectives (Burns, Caesar, Camilletti)
• Italian literature between the 18^th and 21^st centuries (Burns, Caesar, Camilletti, Polezzi)
• literary theory (Burns, Caesar, Camilletti, Polezzi)
• travel writing (Polezzi)
• translation (Lines, Polezzi)
• migrant and polylingual writing (Burns, Polezzi)