Faculties and Units

The University of Lodz is a community made up of faculties and units that form the pillars of our research and teaching activities. It is here that questions, ideas and answers are born – thanks to people who passionately build knowledge and share it with others.

Department of Italian Studies

Institute of Romance Studies, Faculty of Philology

ADDRESS:

Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź

Contact:

tel: 42-665-51-50 (Sekretariat Instytutu Romanistyki)

e-mail: romanistyka@uni.lodz.pl (E-mail to the secretary's office of the Institute of Romance Studies)

www: https://www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/struktura/zaklad-italianistyki

About us

Head of the Department of Italian Studies and the Italian Philology Programme: Prof. Dr. Artur Gałkowski

Description of tasks

The Department of Italian Studies at the University of Łódź was established in 2010. It emerged from the Italian specialization within the field of Italian language, literature and culture studies at the Department of Romance Philology (currently the Institute of Romance Studies), where the specialization has been offered continuously since 1971. The Department offers first- (Bachelor’s degree) and second-cycle (Master's degree = MA) studies in Italian Philology, with the second-cycle programme including translation and teacher-training specializations. The establishment of the Italian Philology programme was associated with the implementation of the ESF Human Capital Operational Programme (PO KL) project entitled “Training staff for the needs of the flexicurity labour market and knowledge-based economy – the University of Łódź’s humanities and social sciences degree programmes” (2010–2015).

Main research areas

The Department conducts research in the fields of linguistics, literary studies, and cultural and religious studies.

In linguistics, members of the Department work in the broad field of Italian and Romance linguistics. Their specializations include the study of proper names (onomastics and chrematonomastics), specialized terminology, written, oral and specialized translation, discourse analysis (including media and press discourse), and language pedagogy, particularly the teaching of Italian as a foreign language at all levels of education.

In literary studies, research focuses on Italian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as ancient Italian literature.

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Research projects :

www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/projekty

Publications :

www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/publikacje

Scientific journals related to Institute

of Romance Studies :

Acta

Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Romanica link

e-Scripta

Romanica link

Translatorica

& Translata [2018-2024] link

Collectanea

Philologica [collaboration] link

Academic Circles and Popular Science

Journals

The

Student Italianist Circle ‘ItaliAMO’ (current information on FB page: click

here ) and the Student Translation Circle GIROL'AMO are active at the

Department and publish their journals:

ItaliAMO

link

Girol'amo

Structural projects under way

The

Department of Italian Studies is implementing further structural projects with

EU/EFS funds under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development,

including POWER projects:

‘Model training of future teachers of humanities subjects at the University of Łódź’ (POWR.03.01.00-00-KN55/18-00; for more information: click here),
Creation of didactic e-materials for foreign languages - (Italian)’ (POWR.02.10.00-00-9014/20; in cooperation with PŁ; more information: click here or here).

International

cooperation:

www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/wspolpraca-miedzynarodowa

Coordinator of Erasmus+ and other mobility

programmes for Italian philology : Dr Katarzyna Kowalik (contact )

Additional information

Access

to the descriptions of the current curricula and study plans of Italian

Philology I and II degree at the University of Łódź: click here .

Description

of the syllabuses of the subjects of Italian Philology I and II degree at the

University of Łódź: click here .