A friar and priest, Fr. Francisco Nahoe, OFMConv now works in campus ministry at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula. Previously, he taught rhetoric and philosophy at Zaytuna College in Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of Nevada, a ThM in Biblical Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. He earned bachelor’s degrees in theology at the Pontifical Seraphicum in Rome and in philosophy at Pomona College in California. His writing and research focus on Milton’s Italian verse, Anglo-Italian literary transactions, the rhetoric of science, Polynesian ethnohistory, and Easter Island Studies. He taught English Literature at Phillips Academy in Andover, and Medieval History and Italian at Dartmouth. An ethnic Rapa Nui, he acts on behalf of Te Mau Hatu, the Easter Island council of elders, for the recovery and repatriation of ancestral remains.