General Department Information

DIRETTORE:  Raffaele Giglio

GIUNTA:  Patricia Bianchi, Costanzo Di Girolamo, Stefano Manferlotti, Sergio Minichini, Elda Morlicchio, Antonio Palermo, Annamaria Palombi, Matteo Palumbo

SEGRETARIO AMMINISTRATIVO:  Anna Maria Caruso Mazzei

PERSONALE AMMINISTRATIVO:  Pasquale Battiloro, Francesco Fucito, Concetta Feliciello, Vincenza Romano 

PERSONALE AUSILIARIO:  Gianluca Graus, Maria Scognamiglio, Michele Villano

The Department of Modern Philology gathers together scholars of modern literature in the Italian, Catalan, English, French, German and Spanish languages, of historical, descriptive, theoretical and applied linguistics, of the history of languages, and of Romance and Germanic philology. The Department is therefore highly interdisciplinary and promotes comparative studies and work in both research and teaching. It has taken over the tasks of the Istituto di Filologia Moderna and the older but much smaller Istituto di Glottologia.

In its various sectors the Department maintains relationships with Italian and foreign universities both inside and outside the European Union. Teacher and student exchange programmes have been set up with the universities of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Caen, Chambéry, Düsseldorf, Ghent, Girona, Graz, Heidelberg, Helsinki, Leiden, Liège, Louvain, Lund, Madrid, Manchester, Odense, Paris (IV and VIII), Poitiers, Reading, Stockholm, Toulouse, Tübingen, Umeå, Valencia and Zurich. 

The Department houses the C.I.R.A.S.S. Interdepartmental Centre directed by Professor Federico Albano Leoni.

Although the Department of Modern Philology produces no publications of its own, its members are involved in editing journals such as Critica letteraria, Filologia e critica, Esperienze letterarie and Medioevo romanzo, series such as Romanica Neapolitana, Strumenti di filologia romanza, Il leone e l’unicorno and Letteratura, teorie e oggetti.

The former library of the Istituto di Filologia Moderna has been merged with the central library of the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, but the Department still possesses the Salvatore Battaglia Library and the more recent Mele Fonds, which are kept for internal use.