It is so exciting to have Professor Carolyn Nadeau as our guest today. As the Byron S. Tucci Professor of Hispanic Studies, Carolyn did her undergraduate work at the University of Virginia, her master's at New York University in Madrid, and received her doctorate from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Nadeau specializes in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century Spanish literature. Her book, Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in Don Quixote I, explores the significance of the women of the prologue in Don Quijote I and Cervantes's impact on the pressing question of literary continuation and cultural authority in Golden Age Spain. She has also written on mythological female figures in the comedia, the role of the wife and mother in sixteenth-century advice manuals, and food representation in Golden Age texts.  Her current project is, Feeding Between the Lines: the Social Significance of Food in Early Modern Spanish Literature. Teaching at Illinois Wesleyan University since 1994, she was the inaugural Director of both of IWU's study abroad program sites, first in London and then in Madrid. In 2003, Professor Nadeau was named the year's honoree for teaching excellence, the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member by the institution, and it is because we know what an amazing teacher she is that we continue to invite her back to the First Year Frequency each year to discuss students' academic transitions.  The episode also looks at the challenges of residential living and supports for students as they develop skills for conflict resolution, compromise and self-advocacy.