February 8-12th, 2016, Professor Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh) was invited to the department of French & Italian at UW-Madison to present his findings (over the course of several days in meetings with a variety of groups within the department) on the changing world of the humanities within institutions of higher education. At the end of his visit, he presented his research on Dante’s Inferno and parallels with Black Liberation poet LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka.