Research

Our Research

Research is a priority in the strategic plan of the Department of Italian at Trinity College. It is meant to enhance knowledge, provide better teaching and better education overall.

Trinity College is brilliantly positioned for the study of Italian literature, film and culture. In Dublin, there is a vibrant Italian Cultural Institute with a rich programme of cultural events and speakers. We also have strong historic and current links with the neighbouring Department of Italian Studies at University College, Dublin. Trinity College’s renowned Long Room Hub is next door to the Department and provides us with an interdisciplinary humanities research centre, housed in a state-of-the-art building and provides a stimulating programme of talks and events.

Italian at Trinity has a lively research focus. We have specialisms in Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the intellectual history of Italian Renaissance Humanism; 13th-20th century Italian poetry, theatre and literature; the History of the Italian Language since its origins; History of Western and Italian novels; Italian Modern and Contemporary History (with focus on Mafia and Fascism); Italian cinema and post-cinema, cultural theory, identity politics, interdisciplinary methodologies and practice; Comparative literature in the European context as well as through the American perspective.

The Italian holdings in Trinity Libraries are rich and continuously updated, thanks also to the fact that Trinity Libraries are Copyright Libraries. 

Trinity Library

External Links:

Our formal links outside the academe:

• Studio Azzurro  
• The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London  
• The Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin 
• The British School at Rome