The strength of the Italian Studies program lies in the breadth and diversity of our scholarly areas of focus, which include all periods of Italian literature and culture, from the Middle Ages to the present, and fields such as cinema, contemporary popular culture, and pedagogy.

Our faculty are committed to rigorous humanistic research in the following areas:

• Medieval Italian literature, with emphases on the relation between literature, science and philosophy and on intercultural mingling particularly in the area of games
• Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, with emphases on humanism, epic, comedy, macaronic and pastoral
• Baroque and early modern literature and culture
• 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century poetry, narrative, and theatre
• Italian cinema
• Pop culture, game studies, and comics studies
• Migration studies, gender studies, Italian American studies
• Italian curriculum and pedagogy

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