Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies (Ohio State University Press, October 2017), co-edited by Robert Patrick Newcomb, associate professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, consolidates work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds on both sides of the Atlantic.

Robert Patrick Newcomb joined the UC Davis faculty in 2008, after completing his PhD in Luso-Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He teaches Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic/Latin American literatures, is undergraduate advisor for Portuguese, director of the UC Iberian Studies Consortium, and co-director of the UC Davis European Studies Initiative.

His research focuses on comparative literature - specifically, comparative approaches to Luso-Hispanic literatures, in both Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, with emphasis placed on the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the essay, and literary relations between writers operating in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. He is active in public debates on Iberian studies, and is a translator (Portuguese to English) of literary and critical texts.

His current book projects are Writing Out of Place: Dislocation and Transnational Lusophone Literature, and In the Shadow of the Rock: Writing Gibraltar into the World.

View the book at Ohio State University