About

Italian is taught in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

We have well over 200 undergraduate students studying Italian, with eight full-time members of staff providing a range of experience and knowledge in Italian teaching and research, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Italian at Leeds was awarded the highest accolade in both the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises, an overall quality rating of 5*. In RAE 2008, we were also rated very highly. All of our research was considered at least 'internationally recognised' in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and 75% was classed as 'internationally excellent' or 'world-leading'. In terms of quality of research, the Department ranked second in the HEFCE table of eighteen Italian departments in the UK.

We are also ranked in third place in Italian in the Times Good University Guide 2009.

The Department is the home of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, which enriches study and research in Dante.

Major projects currently underway include Italian Voices: Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700, funded by the European Research Council, and Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society, funded by the Arts and Humanitites Research Council.

We also have several Erasmus links with Italian universities.