Thomas Hallock is Professor of English and Florida Studies at the St. Petersburg campus of the University of South Florida. In Fall 2019 he received the Garcia-Robles Fulbright Chair in U.S. Studies, where he taught at the Universidad de las Amricas Puebla. Dr. Hallock's most recent book, A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzln to Amherst, was published in Fall 2020 by the University of Alabama Press. He is currently working on a translation of colonial Spanish poetry, The Epic of Florida: Juan de Castellanos, Bartolom de Flores, and Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo.