Dr. Dennis Looney, Jr., Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburg with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy is the keynote for the 2013 Addison Gayle Memorial Lecture. He speaks about his works and philosophical theories relating to Dante, Allen Tate, and other "Freedom Readers" in this lecture. The event was introduced by Jeffrey M. Peck, Dean of the Mildred and George Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English at Baruch College.