Apart from the regular staff, part-time lecturers are invited each year to hold seminars or to teach Greek and Latin grammar for beginners.
The office of the Classical Society of Japan, a nation-wide association of classicists established in 1950, is attached to this department, and its staff are responsible for the society’s activities, organizing the annual general meeting and publishing the annual journal, the Journal of Classical Studies.

Apart from the regular staff, part-time lecturers are invited each year to hold seminars or to teach Greek and Latin grammar for beginners.

The office of the Classical Society of Japan, a nation-wide association of classicists established in 1950, is attached to this department, and its staff are responsible for the society’s activities, organizing the annual general meeting and publishing the annual journal, the Journal of Classical Studies.

• http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/classics/

The lectures in these two departments, which form one department at the graduate school level, aim at covering more or less all the periods and genres of the literature of the English language, while some of them are devoted to the study of the language itself. The lectures are conducted by six full-time professors, and about a dozen part-time lecturers. The departments also receive the collaboration of visiting lecturers from Britain and the United States.

The graduates of the departments have organized the Kyodai Eibungakkai (The English Literary Society, Kyoto University), which annually publishes Albion, a bulletin in Japanese and English, and holds a general meeting at which papers are read by members.

• English/American Language and Literature Web Site (in Japanese)

The courses offered by the department cover more or less all periods and genres (fiction, poetry, drama, philosophical works, language, criticism) together with practical exercises in the language itself. Several Professors are invited from the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies and the Institute for Research in Humanities of Kyoto University, as well as from other universities.

The association of graduate students issues an annual journal entitled Futsubun Kenkyu (Studies on French Literature) written by the Professors and the graduates.

• http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/futsubun/ (in Japanese)

Since its foundation in 1940, the department has specialized in the study of classical Italian literature, in particular medieval and Renaissance literature. Professor Saito specializes in Renaissance literature and in Italian theatre. Associate professor Amano specializes in Renaissance literature and in Italian Risorgimento literature. The fields of modern and contemporary literature are covered by part-time lecturers from other universities. An intensive course in Italian grammar and a conversation course are open also to students who do not specialize in Italian language or literature.

As for the library of Italian literature, mention must be made of the “Kyokko Bunko” collection which contains about 3,000 rare texts and monographs on Dante published before 1936.

• http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/italianista/ (in Japanese)

This department was established in 1995 and three graduate students are registered at present. Its aim is to study the Slavic languages and literatures in an integrated manner. Students are expected to acquire a general knowledge of several languages of the Slavic peoples and their literatures so as to understand their unity and diversity. Accordingly the department offers a balanced program of research and instruction not only in Russian literature in the nineteenth century, a mainstream of traditional Slavic studies in Japan, but also in other fields such as Slavic philology, modern Russian literature, Czech, Polish, South Slavic languages, and so on.

The research pursued in this department covers German language and literature from the period of Middle High German to that of New High German, but the emphasis is on the literature of the modern age.

• http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dokubun/ (in Japanese)