In this episode, we speak with Dr. Tanya Long Bennett. She is a professor of English at the University of North Georgia and the author of “I Have Been So Many People”: A Study of Lee Smith’s Novels. Recently, she returned from a Fulbright in Romania where she taught American Studies at the the University of Bucharest. She is the editor of Critical Essays on the Writing of Lillian Smith, and she teaches Smith regularly in her courses. Adrian Mîță, one of Dr. Bennett's students at the University of Bucharest. We spoke with them about teaching and reading Smith in Romania, Smith’s artistry, and more.