Department of Italian Studies

Select from a wide range of language and culture units from one of the largest Italian departments in Australia and undertake a semester with one of our Italian partner universities. Develop high levels of linguistic aptitude and deep understanding of Italian authors, thinkers and literary and intellectual movements from the Middle Ages to the present.

Undergraduate

• Italian Studies (Introductory)*
• Italian Studies (Intermediate)*
• Italian Studies (Advanced)*
• Italian studies (Honours)
• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Languages)
• Diploma of Language Studies

*Available as a major and minor within the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Visual Arts, as well as all combined Bachelor of Advanced Studies degrees.  

Research

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Master of Philosophy
• Master of Arts (Research)

• University of Bologna
• University of Florence
• University of Padova
  
• University of Pavia
• University of Rome – La Sapienza
• Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
• University of Turin
• Ca' Foscari University of Venice

• Associate Professor Giorgia Alu
• Associate Professor Francesco Borghesi
• Dott Vincenzo De Carlo
• Associate Professor Antonia Rubino

• Undergraduate coursework, postgraduate research and exchange: francesco.borghesi@sydney.edu.au
• Honours: giorgia.alu@sydney.edu.au

• Antonella Beconi
• Daniela Panìco
  

• Emeritus Professor Nerida Newbigin
• Dr Paola Marmini
• Dr Maria Cristina Mauceri
• Dr Kathleen Olive
• Dr Cristiana Palmieri

• Dr Daniel Canaris
  

Celebrate the life and works of Dante on the 700th anniversary of his death with our special talk series.

The year-long event is organised in collaboration with the State Library of New South Wales, the Italian Cultural Institute Sydney, University of Sydney Library and Dante Alighiery Society of Sydney.

• 25 March | Dante 2021 Inaugural Lecture by Nerida Newbigin
  
• 28 June | Film screening: L’Inferno

 Lecture series

• 27 July | Dante’s Journey from Paradise to Hell – Vrasidas Karalis
• 25 August | Hell on Earth in Dante and Margaret Atwood – Emma Barlow
• 20 September | The Global Translation History of Dante’s Divina Commedia – Jacob Blakesley
• 4 October | Dante’s Commedia: An audacious ‘cammin’ – Diana Glenn
  

XXI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo

On the occasion of the “XXI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo” (Week of the Italian Language in the World) organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, four further lectures of our Dante 2021 Lecture Series – this time in Italian – will be offered in the framework of a special collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney, whose generous support the Department is very grateful for.

13 October

• Dante giurista. Una lettura della Monarchia – Diego Quaglioni 
• Ulisse e il desiderio naturale di conoscere dal Convivio alla Commedia – Sonia Gentili
  

20 October

• Dante linguista oggi – Mirko Tavoni
• Su Dante lirico – Claudio Giunta
  

Organising committee

• Chair: Francesco Borghesi (Department Chair of Italian Studies, University of Sydney)
• Emma Barlow (Dante Alighieri Society Sydney)
• John Gagné (Director, Medieval and Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney)
• Lillo Guarneri (Director, Italian Cultural Institute, Sydney)
• Philip Kent (University Librarian, University of Sydney)
• Alice Loda (University of Technology Sydney)
• John Vallance (NSW State Librarian and Chief Executive)

In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute Sydney

Semester 2, 2021

• Thursday 12 Aug, 4pm | Repair practices in Italian-English bilingual multiparty conversations – Francesco Possemato and Daniela Panìco  
• Wednesday 8 Sept, 4pm | Pandora’s Legacy: Venice in its 1,600th year – Catherine Kovesi
• Thursday 4 Nov, 4pm | Bilingual Practices and Language Maintenance: the case of two Italian-Australian families – Daniela Panìco