Welcome to the Department of Italian

In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), 95% of our research activity was judged to be internationally recognized, internationally excellent, or world-leading. This result built on the grade 5A obtained in RAE 2001 and confirmed Italian at Bristol as a major department in the discipline of Italian Studies.

The undergraduate degree programme at Bristol combines the traditional and the innovative. With highly qualified native Italian speakers specialising in language teaching and progression, language learning is in constant evolution. The culture courses taught are designed to develop skills in cultural criticism rather than literary appreciation in a more traditional sense. Teaching in this area is enhanced by immediate contact with lecturers' research specialisms, which cluster in two main areas: Medieval and Renaissance literary and cultural history and Modern Italian culture.

AHRC Doctoral Studentship 2010 - Italian, University of Bristol

Through the AHRC Block Grant Partnership scheme, the Department is pleased to be able to offer a Doctoral Studentship for successful postgraduate applicants beginning programmes in October 2010.

Applicants must first of all apply for a research programme by completing the forms which can be downloaded from this link:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/prospectus/postgraduate/2010/applications/paper-applications.html

The Department of Italian at Bristol has a distinctive profile nationally and internationally, notably in the burgeoning field of Italian Cultural Studies, with research interests in the Middle Ages, and the modern period. Staff specialisms include Dante, early Italian poetry, travel writing, the memory of Fascism and the Second World War, the culture of Fascism, representations of the anni di piombo, Italian colonialism and postcolonialism, gender and sexuality in the 20th and 21st centuries, Sicilian culture, Italian popular cinema, film, literature and migration.

Further information about the Department's staff and their research is available on the following web-site:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/italian/staff/

For further information about the AHRC Studentships please visit:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/scholarships/bgp.html

Email: artf-bgp@bristol.ac.uk

Informal inquiries can be made to Professor Derek Duncan - d.e.duncan@bris.ac.uk