For eight years, Dr. Lisa Starks-Estes has committed to the development of her first book Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays: Transforming Ovid. Starks-Estes is an associate professor of English and the director of the MLA in Liberal Studies Program at USF St. Petersburg. The book focuses on the Roman poet

Some students spend their summers at home, sleeping in until noon. But this summer Jessica Jensen woke up each morning in a home in Salamanca, Spain. She shared toast and jam, muffins and cafe con leche with her host family, who spoke only Spanish, before heading out to studies at her university. Wendy Baker of