Eric Clifford Graf
Eric Clifford Graf | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 15, 1967 Dallas, Texas,  United States |
| Occupation | Writer, Professor, Hispanist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Period | Since 1994 |
| Genre | Essay |
| Website | |
| http://ufm.academia.edu/EricGraf | |
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Eric Clifford Graf (Dallas, TX, January 15, 1967) is an American writer, columnist, professor, Hispanist, and literary critic. He is one of the leading experts in the United States on Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha. He is the author of the book Cervantes and Modernity: Four Essays on Don Quijote (Bucknell UP, 2007) as well as numerous articles and essays related to Golden Age Spain. He has also written on medieval and modern Spain and modern Latin America. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Biography
Graf was born in Dallas but raised in Houston. At a very young age, he was attracted to the language and literature of Spain and Latin America. He holds a BA in Spanish and History as well as a PhD in Spanish, both degrees from the University of Virginia. His doctoral thesis is a commentary on Miguel de Cervantes’s early tragedy La Numancia.
He has been a professor of Spanish Literature at Smith College, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago, The College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia, Wesleyan University, and, most recently, Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Work
In 2007, Professor Graf published his study Cervantes and Modernity: Four Essays on Don Quijote, published by Bucknell University Press. In this essay, the result of years of detailed study, Graf reveals Cervantes as a precursor to several ideological currents that have come to define modernity, in particular feminism, multiculturalism, and materialism. The book was rather polemical. Nevertheless, it is now an important point of reference for English-speaking Hispanists, especially for its presentation of the connection between Cervantes and Thomas Hobbes and its review of the feminist aspects of Don Quijote.
Graf is also considered one of the principal experts in the English-speaking world on the early modern Jesuit thinker Juan de Mariana and the School of Salamanca. On these, he has published multiple studies, such as his 2011 essay “Sancho Panza’s ‘por negros que sean, los he de volver blancos o amarillos’ in DQ 1.29 and Juan de Mariana’s ‘De moneta’ of 1605,” which won the “Luis Andrés Murillo Prize” for the best essay on Cervantes awarded by the Cervantes Society of America.
Graf has also written exhaustive studies on the medieval epic Poema de mio Cid; the poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, San Juan de la Cruz, and Vicente Aleixandre; the paintings of El Greco, especially those at San Lorenzo de El Escorial; and Julio Cortázar’s celebrated short story “Axolotl.”
Beginning in 2015, Graf has been the director of Universidad Francisco Marroquín’s acclaimed Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha, the first massive open online course (MOOC) on the first modern novel. The course, which is available in both English and Spanish, is free and can be accessed worldwide by anyone with an internet connection. It covers all 52 chapters of part one and all 74 chapters of part two of Cervantes’s groundbreaking text. The basic videos are also available in their entirety via YouTube and Graf’s written glosses on every chapter of Don Quijote are also available via his [Academia.edu Academia.edu] website.
References
External Links
- Discover Don Quijote de la Mancha (MOOC)
- The School of Salamanca (MOOC)
- Eric C. Graf on Academia.edu
- Eric Clifford Graf on Dialnet
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