Italian
Research
Research Culture
View pages in this documentWe run a dynamic programme of research events. As the home of several important national and international initiatives in research into Italian culture from Dante to the present, we offer a vibrant intellectual and academic community. Our research culture enriches our teaching, and provides outstanding opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to engage with and lead research in Italian Studies. Regular public lectures bring research into Italian culture to a broader public.
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.
Leeds is the home of the Centre for Dante Studies, and the UK Network for the Study of Medieval Italian Culture. The Italian Writers in Leeds Series brings a leading contemporary Italian author to Leeds every year. We present our research at regular seminars and organise regular events on Dante. Other recent events have included an international conference on Renaissance literature, art and music, an internationally important seminar series on Italian film and a workshops project, supported by the AHRC, on Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450-1650.