The Department’s Library,  located within the Department itself, houses a precious collection of some 100,000 books and periodicals. These include literary classics in their original languages, often in prestigious series such as Bibliothèque de la Pleiade, I meridiani Classici Bompiani, works of literary criticism, volumes relating to specific countries, their languages and culture, and, of course, dictionaries which include special collections, such as the one relating to historical French dictionaries. The library also houses a collection of microfilms and microfiches mainly relating to 18^th century and pre-18^th century French and Spanish texts.
 
 
The Department’s current director is Lia Guerra, associate professor in English literature.