| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-01-01 | - |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-01-01 | - |
Program Overview
This postgraduate program provides in-depth study in Italian literature, film, and cultural history, from the medieval era to the present day. Graduates can pursue careers in higher education, research, and various industries, including translation, journalism, and the cultural sector. The department fosters a vibrant research culture and offers research opportunities to postgraduate students.
Program Outline
Careers:
Graduates from this program often pursue careers in higher education or work on high-level research projects in fields relating to their studies. Others take their in-depth understanding of historical, literary and visual cultures into a host of other professions, such as translation, journalism, publishing and the cultural industries. The advanced critical and professional skills developed at postgraduate level, alongside skills in research and communicating research, also prepare our graduates for a diverse range of careers, from the civil service and law to commerce and the media.
Other:
The department has two broad areas of research expertise:
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, Film and Cultural History, including contemporary Italian history; Italian fascism; memory studies; sports history and culture; the history of psychiatry; modern and contemporary literature, film and culture; Naples and the urban imaginary; representations of political violence and terrorism; women's studies; visual culture and film; film stars and performance; Italian popular cinema; masculinity studies; the reception of Italian film in post-war culture.
- Medieval and Early Modern Italian Literature and Cultural History, including Dante; Boccaccio; medieval and Renaissance Italian culture; early lyric poetry; the reception of Boccaccio; modern literary appropriations of Dante; the history of the book. Every member of the department participates in the research clusters of the Faculty of Arts and the School of Modern Languages. Members of staff are or have been recently involved in various major projects, including the large-scale Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60 (STUDIOTEC), funded by the European Research Council; Naples and the Nation: Image, Media and Culture in the Second Republic, and The Renaissance Decameron, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; and Blood and Power: A History of Italian Fascism, and Dante and the Idea of Italy, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Other major projects include AHRC-funded research into Italian cinema audiences and stars in the 1940s and 1950s, and a Wellcome Trust project on radical psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Colleagues are also deeply involved in the promotion of scholarship in Italian studies, institutionally, nationally and internationally. Postgraduate students are fully integrated into the research culture of the department and participate in our programme of colloquia, workshops and lectures. You may also benefit from the department's strong research links with universities in Italy, especially Naples and Bologna.
UK: full-time£4,758 per year
For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.
