This module focuses on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to modern and contemporary Italian literature, including the study of genres, forms, and themes. It provides a space for advanced, research-based learning in literary and cultural studies. The following fields, in particular, will be explored: modern and contemporay Italian literature in the wider context of world literature, transnational cultural exchanges and lines of influence, scholarly approaches in the environmental humanities, literary and cultural theory, material and visual cultures, reception studies, intermediality. Students will be guided towards independent scholarly inquiry, dialogue, and creative-critical practice.