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Kevin M. McCarthy

Professor of English

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

General Interests

In case you haven't guessed by now, I am of Irish descent! My family is officially a part of the Clan MacCarthy which has its roots in Ireland. The Clan publishes The Stag Trippant journal that is free to members of the Clan MacCarthy, or may be purchased from The Honorary Editor, The Stag Trippant, PO Box 70, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. Information may be obtained by e-mail correspondence with the U.S.A. Clan secretary Kevin T. McCarthy.

Here are some Irish websites that I think you may find interesting:

Coats of Arms in Ireland

Irish Ancestors

Royal Eóghanacht (MacCarthy) Genealogy

As the executive director of the Rawlings Society, I invite you to take a look at our website. We have a wonderful meeting held in various locations around Florida each year in the Spring. If you are interested in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's writings and Southern Literature in general, please consider joining the society and taking part in the annual spring meeting.

He has also testified as an “expert grammarian” in law cases dealing with the interpretation of language in contracts dealing with real estate, employee relations, and prenuptial contracts.

Every other summer he teaches a course on the Maritime History of Greece to American college students on the Greek island of Paros. He and his wife spend a month each summer lecturing on cruise ships sailing in and around Europe.

Academic Interests

English language and linguistics
History of the English language
Floridiana

Teaching

ENC 1145 - A variable topics Freshman level writing course

Writing About Baseball; Writing About Football; Writing About the Sea

ENC 3310 - Advanced Expository Writing
ENG 4060 - History of the English Language
LIN 2670 - English Grammar
LIN 3680 - Modern English Structure
TSL 3370 - Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

Publications

These Books were published by Pineapple Press.

Baseball in Florida	Alligator Tales	Thirty Florida Shipwrecks	Christmas in Florida
Twenty Florida Pirates	Georgia's Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites	The Book Lover's Guide to Florida	Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville
Lighthouses of Ireland	Native Americans in Florida	African Americans in Florida	Aviation in Florida

Apalachicola Bay

St. Johns River Guidebook

These Books were published by University Press of Florida.

Florida Lighthouses

Florida Stories

Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

"A River in Flood" and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

More Florida Stories

These three books were published by the University of Florida's Sesquicentennial Committee. Contact me below for ordering information

African Americans at the University of Florida

Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future

Women at the University of Florida

This book was published by Hippocrene Books, Inc., but is currently out of print. Ordering information may be obtained from me by e-mail (see below), or you may possibly locate a copy through Amazon Books.