Georgia's Lighthouses &
Historic Coastal Sites
Babe Ruth in Florida
Hamaca Happenings at Cross Creek -
with Jim Stephens
“A River in Flood” and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Alligator Tales
CREATE SPACE
St. Johns River Guidebook
African Americans in Florida
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS SOCIETY
I have written two articles a month for this fishing magazine
for 5+ years.
TWO MORE BOOKS ABOUT FLORIDA FOOTBALL BY NATIONAL PRESSES
Antioch on the Orontes:
An Illustrated History
WILD ONION PRESS
"Florida Living" Magazine
named me as one
of Florida's "Intriguing Floridians."
The Galata Bridge in Istanbul:
An Illustrated History
Thirty Florida Shipwrecks
KING SAUD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MAUPIN HOUSE
Apalachicola Bay
The Autobiography of
Kevin M. McCarthy
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
OTHER PUBLISHED BOOKS
The Gators and the Seminoles:
Honor, Guts and Glory
Florida vs Florida State
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
Black Florida
Florida Lighthouses
Guide to the University
of Florida and Gainesville
Greek Americans of Florida
ACADEMIC JOURNALS THAT I HAVE PUBLISHED IN
Historic Photos of
University of Florida Football
Micanopy, Florida:
An Illustrated History
Twenty Florida Pirates
Lighthouses of Ireland
Supplementary Material for B.E.S.
Aviation in Florida
The History of Gilchrist County
Florida Outhouses
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society:
The First 25 Years
Nine Florida Stories by
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Melrose, Florida:
An Illustrated History.
ARCADIA PUBLISHING COMPANY
Kevin Michael McCarthy
Judge Stephan P. Mickle:
His Life and Legacy
Workbook for Pre-science
HIPPOCRENE BOOKS, INC.
MELLEN PRESS
Native Americans in Florida
HISTORY PRESS
Cedar Key, Florida
A History
Suwannee River Guidebook
The Historic Haile Homestead
at Kanapaha Plantation
The AVT Learning System in Writing
Grammar & Paragraphs
DILLON PRESS
Christmas in Florida
NATURE COAST PUBLISHING HOUSE
Benjamin Otis Franklin Jr.:
His Life Story
North Florida Waterways
MORE SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS
Turkey 2 Volunteers
in the Peace Corps: 1963 - 2008
Florida Stories
Hillsborough River Guidebook
Twentieth-Century Florida Authors
Over Southeast Florida
The Book Lover's Guide
to Florida
Lincoln High School,
Gainesville, Florida
Its History and Legacy
South Florida Waterways
Gators and Seminoles:
A Football Rivalry for the Ages
Cedar Key, Florida:
An Illustrated History
Women at the
University of Florida
Caloosahatchee River Guidebook
Remembering University
of Florida Football
PINEAPPLE PRESS
St. Luke the Evangelist:
An Illustrated Biography
Castles of Turkey
POPULAR MAGAZINES THAT I HAVE PUBLISHED IN
Ocala.
Grammar and Usage
Saudi Arabia:
A Desert Kingdom
Lake City, Florida:
A Sesquicentennial Tribute
Carl Joseph: Some Called
Me “Superstar”
Florida Outhouses:
An Ode to the Shack in the Back
More Florida Stories
Drayton Island:
An Illustrated History
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 and publishes The Stag Trippant Journal.
I earned a bachelor's degree in English from LaSalle College (now University) in Philadelphia, PA (1963), spent two years teaching English as a Foreign Language in the U.S. Peace Corps in Turkey (1963-65), earned a master's degree in American Literature (1966) and a doctorate in Linguistics (1970), both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For my doctoral research I spent a summer (1968) studying Arabic at the American University of Cairo in Egypt. My dissertation dealt with the ways that Modern Turkish has changed loanwords from other languages (Arabic, English, French, German, and Persian) to make them conform to the Turkish linguistic system. I then began teaching at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
After 37 years of teaching linguistics and writing in the Department of English at the University of Florida, I retired in December 2005. During that time I also taught for one year at the Lebanese National University in Beirut, Lebanon as a Fulbright Professor of English (1971-72) and two years at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a Fulbright Professor of English (1982-84). I taught writing workshops twice at Hanoi University in Hanoi, Vietnam, and also served as the executive director of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society for eighteen years. The society has 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.
I have also testified six times as an "expert grammarian" in law cases dealing with the interpretation of language in contracts dealing with real estate, employee relations, and prenuptial contracts.
For several summers I taught a course on the Maritime History of Greece to American college students on the Greek island of Paros. My wife and I have taught English four times as volunteers in a week-long Spanish program, Pueblo Ingles, to Spanish business-people in villages in northern Spain. We have also spent much time lecturing on cruise ships sailing in and around Europe and the Caribbean. We have been on over 50 such lecture cruises.
I have had 66 books published or edited, mostly about Florida history, culture, and sports. Several books are in their second edition. See below for pictures of the covers of those books and for pictures of the covers of magazines that I have published articles in.
I am married and have four children.
Kevin McCarthy's email address: ceyhankevin@gmail.com
Last updated: March 26, 2017
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