Eric Clifford Graf

Eric Clifford Graf (1967, Dallas; PhD, University of Virginia) has taught at Smith College, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, College of William & Mary, Wesleyan University, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. He has essays on the POEMA DE MIO CID, Garcilaso de la Vega, Juan de Mariana, El Greco, San Juan de la Cruz, Miguel de Cervantes, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, José Cadalso, Vicente Aleixandre, and Julio Cortázar. His first book, CERVANTES AND MODERNITY (Bucknell University Press, 2007), links the first novel to the Enlightenment via its influence on Voltaire, Feijoo, and Hobbes. His second book, DE REYES A LOBOS (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2019), links Cervantes to Erasmus, Renaissance feminism, late scholasticism, and classical fiction and philosophy. His third book, ANATOMY OF LIBERTY IN DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA: RELIGION, FEMINISM, SLAVERY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS IN THE FIRST MODERN NOVEL (Lexington Books, 2020), shows how Cervantes's seminal work both foreshadowed and relates to the most essential values of today's modern society. Graf is now writing his fourth book, POPOL VUH AND POEMA DE MIO CID: SACRED VIOLENCE AT THE FOUNDATIONS OF SPAIN AND GUATEMALA. For more information about all of his academic work, including free access to his COMPLETE LECTURES ON DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA, which are available in both Spanish and English, go to his official website: https://ericcliffordgraf.academia.edu/research