Thomas Hallock is Professor of English and Florida studies at the University of South Florida. He has been researching, writing about, and teaching the early literature of la Florida for thirty years. Hallock’s previous books include From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral; A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst; and Happy Neighborhood: Essays and Poems.

“The epics of Florida, carefully translated and contextualized by Thomas Hallock, reveal hard truths: the story of this country is entangled in Spanish imperialism, the multilingual trajectory of American literature has yet to be accounted for, and ultimately refined Renaissance poetry is an integral part of the founding violence of what is today the United States.”—Luis Fernando Restrepo, author of Un nuevo reino imaginado: Las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos

Thomas Hallock is Professor of English and Florida studies at the University of South Florida. He has been researching, writing about, and teaching the early literature of la Florida for thirty years. Hallock’s previous books include From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral; A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst; and Happy Neighborhood: Essays and Poems.

“The epics of Florida, carefully translated and contextualized by Thomas Hallock, reveal hard truths: the story of this country is entangled in Spanish imperialism, the multilingual trajectory of American literature has yet to be accounted for, and ultimately refined Renaissance poetry is an integral part of the founding violence of what is today the United States.”—Luis Fernando Restrepo, author of Un nuevo reino imaginado: Las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos

Thomas Hallock is Professor of English and Florida studies at the University of South Florida. He has been researching, writing about, and teaching the early literature of la Florida for thirty years. Hallock’s previous books include From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral; A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst; and Happy Neighborhood: Essays and Poems.

“The epics of Florida, carefully translated and contextualized by Thomas Hallock, reveal hard truths: the story of this country is entangled in Spanish imperialism, the multilingual trajectory of American literature has yet to be accounted for, and ultimately refined Renaissance poetry is an integral part of the founding violence of what is today the United States.”—Luis Fernando Restrepo, author of Un nuevo reino imaginado: Las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos