About

Clayton McCarl is associate professor of Spanish at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses in Spanish language and Latin American literature and culture; directs the International Studies Program; chairs the campus-wide Digital Humanities Initiative; and leads coloniaLab, a workshop for the collaborative edition of colonial Latin American manuscripts and rare print books. In 2011, the Fundación Barrié de la Maza published his edition of Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera’s 1693 manuscript Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias (Pirates and smugglers of the East and West Indies). His work has appeared in the journals Colonial Latin American Review, Book History and Scholarly Editing. McCarl led the establishment of the Colonial Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), served as Section Chair from 2012-2014, and edited Colonia/Colônia, the Section’s quarterly newsletter from 2012-2015.