Italian Studies

Italian Studies: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

Italian Studies

MA

  • Field:
    • Italian Literature

PhD

  • Fields:
    • Middle Ages and Renaissance;
    • Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries;
    • Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Overview

Graduate students in the Department of Italian Studies come from several parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, and Europe. Faculty members are heavily engaged in teaching and research in their fields. Some of them are associated at the graduate level with the Centre for Comparative Literature, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the McLuhan program, Cinema Studies, and the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.

Contact and Address

Web: italianstudies.utoronto.ca
Email: italian.grad@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-6472

Department of Italian Studies
University of Toronto
Carr Hall, 2nd floor
100 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Canada

Italian Studies: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Bancheri, Salvatore - BA, MA, PhD
Brilli, Elisa - MA, PhD
Lettieri, Michael - BA, MA, PhD
Piccardo, Enrica - MA, PhD
Pierno, Franco - BA, MA, PhD (Associate Chair, Graduate)
Robins, William - BA, MPH, PhD
Rupp, Stephen - BA, MA, MPH, MA, PhD
Somigli, Luca - PhD (Chair and Graduate Chair)
Terpstra, Nicholas - BA, MA, PhD
Zambenedetti, Alberto - MA, PhD

Members Emeriti

Eisenbichler, Konrad - BA, MA, PhD
Guardiani, Francesco - MA, PhD
Pietropaolo, Domenico - BSc, MA, PhD

Associate Members

Ingallinella, Laura - BA, MA, MA, PhD
Liberatori, Abril - BA, MA, PhD
Maneri, Marcello - BA, PhD
Morra, Eloisa - BA, MA, PhD
Pesarini, Angelica - BA, MSc, MA, PhD
Polimeni, Giuseppe - BA, PhD
Urbancic, Anne - BA, BEd, MA, PhD
Zinelli, Fabio - MA, PhD

Italian Studies: Italian Studies MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the department regarding course availability.

Course Code Course Title
ITA1000H
Methodologies for the Teaching and Study of Italian (Credit/No Credit)
ITA1001Y
Colloquia and Professional Development (Credit/No Credit)
ITA1025H Old Italian
ITA1029H History of Italian Religious Language
ITA1030H Italian Lexicography: History and Methodologies
ITA1031H
History of Italian Language in North America
ITA1165H Introduction to Italian Philology
ITA1177H
The Italian Questione della Lingua
ITA1200H
Dante
ITA1202H
Dante as a Reader of Augustine's City of God: Augustinian Textual Communities at the Beginning of the 14th Century
ITA1203H
Boccaccio
ITA1235H Topics in Italian Studies
ITA1330H
Petrarch and Petrarchism
ITA1520H
Renaissance Humanism
ITA1535H
Topics in Italian Literature
ITA1540H
Renaissance Italian Theatre
ITA1550H
Sixteenth-Century Florence
ITA1553H Renaissance Crossroads: Tales of Exchange in Pre-modern Italy
ITA1555H Literature and Society in Renaissance Italy
ITA1591H
Baroque Poetics and Poetry
ITA1597H
The Commedia dell'Arte
ITA1601H
Vico
ITA1605H
Theories of the Stage and Dramatic Criticism
ITA1610H
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Theatre
ITA1645H
Post-Tridentine Religious Drama
ITA1705H
Pirandello
ITA1710H
Aspects of Modern Italian Poetry
ITA1735H
Topics in Italian Studies I
ITA1736H
Topics in Italian Studies II
ITA1737H
Topics in Italian Studies
ITA1755H
Italian Modernism
ITA1760H
Futurism
ITA1810H
Studies in Italian Literature and Film
ITA1820H The Mediterranean Noir: A Transnational Approach
ITA1830H Editing 900: Leonardo Sciascia, his World, his Archive
ITA1815H
Issues in Italian Film Historiography
ITA2010Y Directed Research in Italian Linguistics
ITA2051H Lecture Series Research 1