Areas of Expertise
Colonial Latin America, Latin American Culture, Documentary and Literary Editing, Digital Humanities/Electronic Textual Studies
Education
2010 Ph.D., Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Dissertation: Edition, with introduction and notes, of Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias (1693) by Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera (c.1650-c.1705). Director: Isaías Lerner. Readers: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, John O’Neill, Lía Schwartz.
2010 Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
2008 M.Phil., Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
1995 Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Biography
Clayton McCarl is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses in Spanish language, and Latin American literature and culture. He earned his Ph.D. in 2010 from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York in 2010. His research focuses on colonial Latin America, addressing in particular the textual products of maritime exploration and piracy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His doctoral dissertation, the first edition of Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera’s 1693 Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias (Pirates and Smugglers of the East and West Indies) was published in 2011 by the Fundación Barrié de la Maza in Spain.
Awards
2009 Dissertation Fellowship. The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
2009 Dissertation Research Award. Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities
2009 Doctoral Student Research Grant. The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
2009 Adjunct Professional Development Grant. Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York
2004-2009 Provost’s Fellowship. The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
2009, 2007, 2005 Sue Rosenberg Zalk Student Research and Travel Award. The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
2006-2007 Instructional Technology Fellowship, Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York
2005 Cátedra Miguel Delibes Fellowship. University of Valladolid, Spain/The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
1995 Phi Kappa Phi (National Honors Society), Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honors Society), Sigma Delta Pi (National Spanish Honors Society)
Affiliations
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro
Latin American Studies Organization
Modern Language Association
Publications & Presentations
EDITIONS
Seyxas y Lovera, Francisco de. Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias (1693). Ed. Clayton McCarl. A Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, 2011. Colección Galicia Exterior.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“Piratas heterodoxos del siglo XVII: El caso de Carlos Enriques Clerque.” Pictavia aurea. Actas del IX Congreso de la AISO (Poitiers, 11-15 de julio de 2011), Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail (Anejos de Criticón), 2013 (forthcoming).
“An Indigenous Sculptor on the Spanish Stage: Calderón’s rewriting of Francisco Tito Yupanqui in La Aurora en Copacabana.” Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Graduate Students’ Congress, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Spec. issue of LLJournal 2 (2007).
ARTICLES
“La ciudad a la deriva: Nueva York en las obras de Walt Whitman y José Martí.” LL Journal 1:1 (2006).
REVIEWS
Rev. of Traces of Contamination: Unearthing the Francoist Legacy in Contemporary Spanish Discourse, Eloy E. Merino and H. Rosi Song, eds. Siglo XXI 3 (2005).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"English Pirate or Iberian Provocateur? The Mysterious Case of Carlos Enriques Clerque." University of North Florida Department of History Past-to-Present Lecture Series, October 25, 2012.
“ChocQuibTown y la ‘invisibilidad nacional.’” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 23-26, 2012.
"Piratas heterodoxos del XVII: el caso de Carlos Enríquez Clerck.” IX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro, Université de Poitiers, July 11-15, 2011.
“Phantom Journeys, Phantom Books: Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera’s Elusive Pirate Library.” The Republic of Letters and the Empire of the Two Worlds: Culture and Society in Baroque Spain, Instituto Cervantes/Hispanic Society of America/The Graduate Center (CUNY), September 14-16, 2010.
“A Geography of Impertinence: Using Historical Maps to Explore a Spanish Treatise on Piracy.” Digital Humanities, University of Maryland, June 22-25, 2009.
“A Library of Pirates for Colonial Mexico.” Fourteenth Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Society of Textual Scholarship, New York, March 18-21, 2009.
“‘Discreto, cortesano y bien criado’: Sir Francis Drake en La Argentina de Martín del Barco Centenera.” Third International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Colonial Studies in the Americas, Quito, Ecuador, June 5-8, 2007.
“An Indigenous Sculptor on the Spanish Stage: Calderón’s rewriting of Francisco Tito Yupanqui in La Aurora en Copacabana.” Twelfth Annual Graduate Students’ Congress, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, March 23-24, 2007.
“‘¿Son ésas las chabolas?’: el turismo interior en la novela del tardofranquismo.” Seventeenth Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona, February 5-7, 2007.
“‘Estos momentáneos pantalones’: la imaginería indumentaria en Poemas humanos.” Tenth Annual International Graduate Students’ Congress, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, December 9, 2005.
