A panel of Saint Anselm College Students Moderated by Professor Georgia Henley, English Department

Georgia Henley is a member of the English Department who specializes in the languages and literatures of medieval Britain. She employs digital humanities and book-historical methods to uncover the literary networks that connected England to its earliest colonies. She is the author and co-author of numerous scholarly publications, and a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Her current book project, Reimagining the Past in the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), examines how Anglo-Welsh families reimagined the Welsh past in order to influence the political landscape of the Welsh borderlands.

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Presenter: Professor Katherine Bentz, Fine Arts Department

Kate Bentz is Professor of Art History at Saint Anselm College and the Academic Director of Saint Anselm’s study abroad program in Tuscania, Italy. Her research focuses on urbanism and landscape history in sixteenth-century Italy, and she has published her work in scholarly journals such as Sixteenth-Century Journal and The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and has received fellowships and grants from institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collections, Villa I Tatti-The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and The Getty Research Institute.

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Presenter: Dr Vincent Colapietro '73

Vincent Colapietro is a 1973 graduate of Saint Anselm College and a Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University in the Departments of Philosophy and African American Studies. Through the Center for the Humanities at the University of Rhode Island, he has a teaching appointment in the departments of English, Writing & Rhetoric, and Philosophy.

In the course of his career he has authored several books and over two hundred articles. In 2004 he was honored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy with the Herbert W. Schneider Award for lifetime achievement.

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Presenter: Jennifer Mulitello

Jennifer Militello is the current Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen, named a finalist for the 2024 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize (forthcoming, 2025), The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021) and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous books of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous national journals in the U.S. and abroad. She has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at New England College.

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Help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and learn how to make Tamales with the Modern Languages Department! All are welcome.

Columbia is a world famous for its blooms and every year, in the heart of the coffee district., a giant festival is held in Medellin to celebrate Colombian flowers and those who grow them.  Join us for a fun time making flowers.