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Robert Mccaw

  • Associate Professor, Spanish

Education

  • PhD, Princeton University, 1994
  • MA, Princeton University, 1991
  • BA, University of California-Berkeley, 1989

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
SPANISH 333-001 Advanced Spanish Grammar MW 10am-11:15am
SPANISH 350-001 Understanding Literature and Culture MW 1pm-2:15pm

Teaching Interests

  • 16th and 17th Century Hispanic Literature and Culture
  • Spanish and Latin American Civilization
  • Hispanic Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

McCaw, Robert J.El villano en su rincón (Edition of Lope de Vega's Play)Newark, Del: Cervantes & Co. 2016.
McCaw, Robert J.““A Poetics Sacralized: Luis de Góngora’s Soledades as Religious Rhetoric in Luis de Tejeda’s ‘Romance sobre su vida’”” Hispanófila(2013): 3-22.
McCaw, Robert J."Transforming Phaethon: Cervantes, Ovid, and Sancho Panza's Wild Ride"_The Changing Face of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Medieval and Early Modern Europe_. Eds. Alison Keith and Stephen Rupp. (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007). 2007: 239-250
Anthology of Spanish Golden Age PoetryEd. McCaw, Robert J., and Spinnenweber, Kathleen T.European Masterpieces. 2007: 192 pp.
Molina, Tirso de. El burlador de Sevilla y el convidado de piedraEd. McCaw, Robert J.Cervantes and Co.. 2003.
McCaw, Robert J.“The Wild Man Reads Castiglione: Garcilaso, Courtly Love, and the Civiling Function of Poetry” Convergencias Hispánicas: Selected Proceedings and Other Essays on Spanish Latin American Literature, Film, and LinguisticsEd. Scarlett, Elizabeth, and Wescott, Howard B.Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs. (2001): 261-269.
McCaw, Robert J.The Transforming Text: A Study of Luis de Góngora's SoledadesScripta Humanistica. 2000.

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