Michael J. McGrath

Michael J. McGrath is a Professor of Spanish at Georgia Southern University. His research focuses on early modern Spanish life and literature, with special emphasis on cultural studies, the comedia, and Don Quixote. He is the author of nearly seventy publications, including Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality (Purdue University Press, 2020), The Art of the Game of Chess (Catholic University of America Press, 2020), the first English translation of Ruy López’s chess treatise Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del ajedrez (1561), and A Primer of Pastoral Spanish (Catholic University of America Press, 2022).