The Italian Studies program at Penn State offers training in the skills required for fluency in Italian and knowledge in Italian culture, civilization, and literature. Its aim is to open to the student both the traditions of one of the major formative components of the Western world and the continuing vitality of modern Italian and Italian-American life.

The Italian Studies program at Penn State is supported by the George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library located on the second and third floor of Pattee Library.

In this guide you will find a variety of resources to assist you with your research. If you need additional assistance, please contact me (contact information on the left).
Several ways I can help you include:

• brainstorming, searching, identifying, and accessing relevant library resources for your research
• locating and/or purchasing materials to support your research and teaching
• providing library instruction sessions for your classes

For information about resources to learn Italian, please review the Language Learning (Self-Study) page.