Italian Studies

Medieval and Dantean philology, Renaissance Studies, Tasso studies, drama, the literature of the Enlightenment and the proto-Romantic period; the 19th Century, contemporary literature (fiction, non-fiction and poetry in the post-modern age), comparative literature, theory and criticism of literature (geocriticism and the representation of space in the contemporary age, gender studies, psycho-analytic hermeneutics and intercultural studies); history of Italian literature and literary criticism; history of Italian language, stylistics, and metrics, from the origins to the present. There is a focus on: rhetorical tropes and schemes and literary genres; translation theory and the history of translation; the use of dialects, particularly of the Veneto area; Italian linguistics (in particular the study of special languages and political discourse); the teaching of Italian as a second language.