Teresa Fiore  is a Professor and Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian-American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University. Her talk Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies is part of the Jorizzo Lecture on Italian-American Studies that the Italian Program will hold annually at WFU in the month of October to celebrate the Italian-American Heritage Month. This event is possible thanks to a generous donation from Joseph and Irene Jorizzo. The goal of the Jorizzo Lecture is to bring major scholars in Italian-American Studies to share with students and the community the rich Italian-American history  by comparing the past to the present.