Undergraduate
BA Italian
Lead
College: Royal Holloway
Royal Holloway,
founded in 1885, is one of the University of London's six
largest Colleges and is home to more than 6,000 undergraduate
and postgraduate students on over 100 different degree courses.
Its students come from all areas of the United Kingdom and from
more than 60 other countries.
Royal Holloway
is one of only a few colleges nationally which is allowed to use
the 'Royal' title. Its full name was Royal Holloway and Bedford
New College, a name which reflects a long and distinguished
history: in 1985 two colleges of the University of London,
Bedford and Royal Holloway, came together to form the present
college. Bedford College was founded in 1849 as a university
college for women. Royal Holloway opened in 1886 as a women's
college, named after Thomas Holloway, its founder. Male
undergraduates were admitted for the first time in 1965. Please
visit the
Royal
Holloway website (external link; new
window) for more information.
Academic staff
Professor Jane E. Everson
Course Director
Professor Jane Everson is the author of Bibliografia del
Mambriano di Francesco Cieco da Ferrara (Alessandria,
1994); The Italian Romance Epic (Oxford, 2001);
co-editor of Performers in Italian Drama from the time of
Dante to Pirandello (Lewiston-Lampeter, 1991) and
Scenes of Change: Studies in Cultural Transition (Pisa,
1996) and of articles on Italian Renaissance literature,
Ariosto, and early printing in Italy. Professor Everson is
currently working on a critical edition of the narrative poem
Il Mambriano.
