Lynn Festa is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers. Her publications include Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory (Oxford University Press, 2009).

*Part of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum "Building Bridges Between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts"

*Part of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum "Building Bridges Between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts"

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”

Joseph Luzzi is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Studies , and Co-Director of the first year seminar pro-gram at Bard College. . He received his Ph.D. in Italian Litera-ture from Yale university in 2000. Since then he has written a book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, which has re-ceived the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association of America in 2009. He has also pub-lished reviews in the Los Angeles Times Book Review

Jen Waldron and Ryan McDermott will lead an informal seminar on Nicholas Watson’s "Censorship and Cultural Change: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409" (1995).

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”