Staff who teach for the Centre are drawn from the departments of Classics, English, History, History of Art, Liberal Arts, and Modern Languages (French, Hispanic Studies, and Italian). Their research interests and expertise are highly varied (see research), with particular strengths in English and Italian culture, but also significant expertise in France, the Hispanic world, the wider Mediterranean, the Low Countries, and German-speaking territories. Some of their specialist topics are listed below:

• history of the book and reading practices
• religious art, polemics, thought, and literature
• the classical tradition (including neo-Latin and vernacular cultures; Plato; Aristotle)
• Renaissance thought and practices (including science and medicine, ethics and politics)
• theatre and performance (especially in England)
• gender (especially in literature)
• society and power
• court and civic culture
• learned culture (including humanist circles, academies, universities)
• popular culture
• visual culture and debates on the arts
• Venetian economy, art and culture
• travel, colonialism and the New World

Warwick is well-placed to offer teaching and research programmes in Renaissance Studies, both because of its own staffing resources and library provisions (which include excellent electronic resources such as ITER , BIHR, Early English Books Online and The Making of the Modern World; others listed here), and because of its proximity to major research collections at Oxford, Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon and London. In addition, it has well-established links with other prestigious centres of Renaissance excellence, including the Warburg Institute in London and the Newberry Library in Chicago. Many members of the CSR are leaders in their field and are in high demand at conferences and learned societies around the globe. Furthermore, the CSR has a world-leading programme of skills-building in areas such as languages (classical and modern), palaeography (English, Italian, Latin), grant-writing, organization of conferences, and – through placements – in the heritage sector.