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1 ROBERT JOHN MCCAW CONTACT Address: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Curtin 733 INFORMATION University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PO Box 403 Milwaukee, WI Telephone: (414) EDUCATION Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), Princeton University Dissertation: "Learning From the Labyrinth: Life, Death, and Ethics in Góngora's Soledades" Thesis Director: Alban K. Forcione M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) Princeton University B.A., Spanish (with distinction), University of California at Berkeley University of California Education Abroad Program at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain ACADEMIC Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin at POSITIONS Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Instructor of Spanish, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Lecturer of Spanish, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Assistant in Instruction of Spanish, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ PUBLICATIONS BOOK The Transforming Text: A Study of Luis de Góngora's "Soledades" This book studies the didactic function of metamorphosis and mutability in Góngora's most celebrated work. Analysis of the poem's literary and iconographic intertexts shows that the poem articulates a meaningful philosophy of life, degeneration, death, and rebirth. (Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 2000) EDITIONS Anthology of Spanish Golden Age Poetry. (Newark, DE: Cervantes & Co., 2007) [co-edited with Kathleen Thornton Spinnenweber] Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla y el convidado de piedra. (Newark, DE: Cervantes & Co., 2003) ARTICLES Transforming Phaethon: Cervantes, Ovid, and Sancho Panza s Wild Ride. In Alison Keith, ed. The Changing Face of Ovid s Metamorphoses in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007):

2 The Wild Man Reads Castiglione: Garcilaso, Courtly Love, and the Civilizing Function of Poetry. Eds. Elizabeth Scarlett and Howard B. Wescott. Convergencias Hispánicas: Selected Proceedings and Other Essays on Spanish and Latin American Literature, Film, and Linguistics. (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2001): "Turning a Blind Eye: Sexual Competition, Self-Contradiction, and the Impotence of Pastoral in Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea." Hispanófila 127 (1999): "The Liberated Word: Africans and Carnivalesque Imagery in Francisco de Quevedo's 'Boda de negros.'" Afro-Hispanic Review 18.2 (1999): "Daphne, Apollo, and Homo ludens in Luis de Góngora's Soledad primera." Symposium 52.2 (1998): "Playing Doctor: Satire, Laughter, and Spiritual Transformation in Caviedes's Diente del Parnaso." Calíope 3.2 (1997): ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES Mythology in Spanish Golden Age Writing. World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A. Oropesa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Forthcoming) Chivalry Literature in Spain and the New World. World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A.Oropesa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Forthcoming) Universities in Spain and the New World: beginnings to World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A.Oropesa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Forthcoming) Sephardic Literature in Spanish. World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A.Oropesa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Greenwood Press (Forthcoming) Juan de Mena. World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie and Salvador A.Oropesa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Greenwood Press (Forthcoming) Brianda Domecq. Latin American Writers: An Encyclopedia. Eds. María Claudia André and Eva Paulino Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2008 Nancy Cárdenas. Latin American Writers: An Encyclopedia. Eds. María Claudia André and Eva Paulino Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2008 Miguel de Cervantes. Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. I, Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006 Don Quijote. Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. I, Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Materia crítica. Formas de ocio y de consumo en la cultura áurea. Ed. Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Bulletin of Spanish Studies 88.3 (2011): Essays on the Literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America by John Beverley. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Tamesis, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 87.5 (2010): Lacayo de risa ajena: El Gongorismo en la Fábula de Polifemo de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano by Rafael Bonilla Cerezo. Córdoba: Diputación de Córdoba,

3 2006. Calíope 15.1 (2009): El teatro del Siglo de Oro ante los espacios de la crítica. Encuentros y revisiones. Ed. Enrique García Santo-Tomás. Madrid: Iberoamericana, Hispania 88.2 (2005): Intertextuality Through Obscurity: The Poetry of Federico García Lorca and Luis de Góngora by Jack de Groot. New Orleans: UP of the South, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38.3 (2004): En la Edad de Oro: Estudios de ecdótica y crítica literaria by José Cebrián. México: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, Hispania 86.3 (2003): Juan del Encina, el peregrino: Temas y técnicas de la Tribagia by César Domínguez. Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar. London: Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Hispania 86.2 (2003): Pigmalión y Galatea: Refracciones modernas de un mito by Ana Rueda. Madrid: Fundamentos Hispania 84.4 (2001): Mysterious Realms: Functions of Imagery in Traditional Spanish Lyric and Balladry by Elizabeth Boretz. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, Hispania 84.1 (2001): Góngora and the "Pyramus and Thisbe" Myth From Ovid to Shakespeare by David Garrison. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, Calíope 3.2 (1997): GRANTS / HONORS Short-term Resident Fellow, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. ($600), June 2008 Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. ($3600), February/March 2008 Sabbatical, UW-Milwaukee. Spring UW System Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. Fall 2007 Finalist, UW-Milwaukee Distinguished Teaching Award, UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Grant ($500), 2006 Faculty Arts and Humanities Travel Award ($250), 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Travel Writing, Skepticism, and Religious Belief in Renaissance France. The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. July 11 August 5, ($3000) UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Grant ($500), UW-Milwaukee Arts and Humanities Travel Award ($500), UW-Milwaukee Center for International Education Travel Grant ($200), UW-Milwaukee Cultures and Communities Special Events Mini-Grant ($500), University of Montevallo Research and Special Projects Grant ($500), Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, Edward C. Armstrong Prize, Princeton University, Council on Regional Studies summer grants, Princeton University, McMahon Fund summer grants, Princeton University, UC Berkeley Departmental Citation in Spanish, 1989 Academic Honors ( , ) and Dean's List (SP 88), UC Berkeley Sigma Delta Pi (1988) and Alpha Mu Gamma (1989) Honor Societies

4 CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND PANELS Góngora moralisé: The Spiritualization of the Soledades in Luis de Tejeda s in Luis de Tejeda s El Peregrino de Babilonia. Fourteenth Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Conference. Corfu, Greece. 27 May Culteranismo a lo divino: Los poetas hispanoamericanos del siglo diecisiete y la sacralización de las Soledades de Luis de Góngora. Cuarto Congreso Internacional Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, las Américas y Puerto Rico. Universidad de Puerto Rico-Arecibo. 19 November A Poetics Sacralized: Luis de Góngora s Soledades as Religious Rhetoric in Colonial Spanish America. Symposium on the Sacred and Profane in the Early Modern Hispanic World, Indianapolis Museum of Art and Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington, IN. 17 October Rethinking the Centón: Imitation and Originality in Collage Poems of the Spanish Golden Age. Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN. 14 November A Poetics in Search of a Purpose: Spirituality and Gongorism in Colonial Spanish America. Chicago Area Renaissance Seminar, Chicago, IL. 20 May Parody, the Phaethon Myth, and Sancho s Ascent in Don Quijote. Cervantes Symposium at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. 26 April Rethinking Gongorism: The Poetics of Pilgrimage in Luis de Tejeda s El peregrino de Babilonia. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 4 April A Poetics in Search of a Purpose: The Journey of Gongorismo through Colonial Spanish America. John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI. 5 March Cláusulas en el mar undosas leo : Navigation, Language, and the Poetics of Pilgrimage in Hernando Domínguez Camargo s San Ignacio de Loyola. Mid- America Conference on Hispanic Literature, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. 5 October The New World and Religious Belief in Lope de Vega s El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón. Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. 27 October Intricate Passages: Luis de Góngora, Spanish America, and the Poetics of Exile. Ninth Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, Genoa, Italy. 27 May 2006 Cartographic Convolutions: Góngora, Calderón, and the Poetics of Exile. Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI. 12 November 2005 Góngora and the Poetics of Exile in Seventeenth-Century Latin America. NEH Summer Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. 29 July Transforming Phaethon: Cervantes, Ovid, and Sancho Panza s Wild Ride. Centre for Medieval Studies and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Annual Conference, Victoria College at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 12 March 2005 Sancho in Phaethon s Chariot: Myth, Parody, and Travel in Cervantes s Don Quijote. Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing, Milwaukee, WI. 23 October 2004

5 Dismembering, Remembering, and the Symbolic Sacrifice in Garcilaso s Eclogues. Eleventh Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Madison, WI. 2 August 2004 Sacrifice and the Body in Garcilaso s Eclogues. Seventh Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain. 29 May 2004 Spanish Literature and Hispanic Studies. Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures (MAFLL) Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. 12 November 2003 Inside Matter s Maze: Philosophical Materialism and the Intellectual Quest in Góngora s Soledades and Sor Juana s Primero sueño. Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Boston University, Boston, MA. 9 October 2003 Controversial Matter: Epicureanism in Golden Age Spain. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. 28 March 2003 Seville, Spain in Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee, WI. 27 October 2002 Montemayor Takes Arcadia to Court: Espionage and Community in La Diana. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. 28 September 2002 Góngora, Lucretius, and the Epicurean Text. Fifth Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, Granada, Spain. 31 May 2002 Interior Decorating: Conquest, Control, and the Struggle for Self in Early Modern Spanish Culture. Ninth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA. 17 November 2001 The Symbolic Sacrifice: Convention and Courtly Love in Garcilaso, Montemayor, and Góngora. Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 20 October 2001 "Víctimas de Petrarca: El amor cortés y el sacrificio simbólico en la literatura pastoril española." University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. 9 February 2001 [13 more lectures given before 2001] CURRENT RESEARCH BOOK ARTICLES Intricate Passages: The Poetics of Exile and Pilgrimage in Luis de Tejeda s Libro de varios tratados y noticias A Poetics Sacralized: Luis de Góngora s Soledades as Religious Rhetoric in Luis de Tejeda s Romance sobre su vida (under review) A study of myth and burlesque in Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina s Fábula de Pan y Siringa BOOK REVIEW Kluge, Sofie. Baroque. Allegory. Comedia. The Transfiguration of Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century Spain. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, Bulletin of Spanish Studies

6 COURSES TAUGHT UW MILWAUKEE Freshman Seminar: Wild Men, Wild Women (SPN 192) Advanced Grammar and Composition I (SPN 305) Advanced Writing and Reading (SPN 308) Introduction to Literary Studies (SPN 350) Introduction to Spanish Literature (SPN 351) Spanish Culture (SPN 361) Latin American Culture (SPN 363) Deviance, Difference, and Otherness in Hispanic Culture (SPN 365) Literature, Culture, and Travel in Spain (SPN 365) Spain s Regional Cultures in the 21 st Century (SPN 365) Spanish Literature in Translation: Cervantes and His World (SPN 380) Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves: The Hispanic Underworld (SPN 405) # Women, Power, and Authority in Early Modern Spain (SPN 405) # Love and Honor in Spanish Golden Age Drama (SPN 407) # Cervantes: The World of Don Quijote (SPN 409; SPN 572/757) # Spanish-American Colonial Literature (SPN 453; 571/771) # Topics in Hispanic Culture: Spanish Regional Cultures (SPN 461) Hispanic Literature and Civilization (SPN 470) Spanish Literature and Civilization (SPN 474) Spanish Picaresque Novel (SPN 506/781) # Voices and Visions of Early Hispanic Culture (SPN 508) # Satire and Society in the Golden Age (SPN 570/757) # Capstone Experience (SPN 599) Independent Study: Spanish Golden Age Drama (SPN 699) Independent Reading: Spanish Golden Age Drama (SPN 799) # # = Undergraduate / Graduate Course [A variety of other courses also taught at University of Montevallo, SUNY-Buffalo, The Ohio State University, and Princeton University] STUDY ABROAD DIRECTORSHIP AND TEACHING Faculty Director, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Summer in Madrid (SU 05, SU 06) ACADEMIC SERVICE: DEPARTMENTAL UW MILWAUKEE COMMITTEES Spanish and Portuguese Departmental Executive Committee (FA 05- ) Spanish Graduate Studies Committee (FA 08- ) Chair, Curriculum and Assessment Committee (FA 06-SP 07; FA 08-SU 11) Chair, Scholarship Committee (FA 04-SP 07; FA 08-SP 09; FA 10-SP 11) Departmental Exit Exam Committee (FA 08-SP 09) Search Committee Member, Latin American Literature (FA 05-SP 06, FA 06-SP 07) Search Committee Member, Modern Spanish Literature (FA 03) Chair, Search Committee, Department Chair / Latin American Literature (FA 02) Search Committee Member, Portuguese Search (02-03; 08-09; 09-10) Meta Steinfort Scholarship Committee (SP 02) Merit Salary Raise Committee (SP 02) OTHER Department Chair (FA 11- ) Graduate Advisor (FA 11- ) Representative, MAFLL Coordinating Committee (FA 06-SP 07)

7 Departmental Webpage Liaison (FA 03-SP 07) Library Committee Representative (FA 02-SP 06) Coordinator of Club Hispánico (FA 02-SP 04) Coordinator of Conexiones Entre Maestros y Profesores de Español (CEMPE) (FA 01-SP 02) Coordinator of Spanish 305 (Advanced Grammar) (SP 02-FA 03) Evaluator of Undergraduate Student Exit Exams in Spanish (FA 01- ) Participant, Spanish and Portuguese Booth at Open House (FA 01- ) Supervisor of 14 Undergraduate Capstone Projects Coordinator and Evaluator of 4 Graduate Student Exams for the Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures Evaluator of 5 Graduate Student Exams for the Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures Currently Graduate Advisor for 2 MAFLL students [A range of departmental duties also carried out at the University of Montevallo, SUNY-Buffalo, The Ohio State University, and Princeton University] ACADEMIC SERVICE: UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE UW MILWAUKEE College of Letters and Science APCC (FA 11- ) Ad Hoc Sabbatical Review Committee for the Humanities (FA 08) Faculty Senate (FA 05-SP 08) Co-Chair, Advisory Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (FA 02-SP 05 ) World Languages, Literature, and Linguistics Advisory Committee (FA 01) [A range of university and college duties also carried out at the University of Montevallo, SUNY-Buffalo, The Ohio State University, and Princeton University] ACADEMIC SERVICE: CONFERENCE PANELS Chair, Pre-1700 Spanish Literature, Midwest Modern Language Association, 2010 Secretary, Pre-1700 Spanish Literature, Midwest Modern Language Association, 2009 Chair, Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature. Fifth Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, Granada, Spain. 31 May 2002 Chair, Open Session: Spanish Topics. Ninth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA. 17 November 2001 [Two other conference panels chaired before 2001] ACADEMIC SERVICE: EXTRAMURAL Reader of Spanish Language Advanced Placement (AP) Exams for the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Summer 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 EDITORIAL REVIEWS Manuscript reviews for Tamesis, U of Toronto P, Arizona State UP, McGraw-Hill, Juan de la Cuesta, Calíope, and others.

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