Jack de Groot, Ph.D (Researcher of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia),

Member of the Directorial Board of the "University Press of the South", New Orleans USA

Graduate Student (M.A.) Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne (1995-96),

B.Mus. (Twents Conservatorium, Enschede, The Netherlands),

B.Ed. (Flinders University, Adelaide),

B.Arts (First Class Honours, Flinders University, Adelaide),

D.S.E. (Universidad de Salamanca),

D.B.E. (Universidad de Salamanca),

Dip. FORO DE GONGORA (Universidad de Córdoba, Andalucía),

Co-Writer of Cantos Paraguayos. Poemas de libertad (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2009),

Since 2004 living permanently in Zoetermeer, near The Hague, The Netherlands.

If you have a manuscript ready to be published (proofread by two capable readers), please contact me.

From left to right: Prof. Alfredo Martínez Expósito (Gran Cruz del Mérito Civil, 2009), Prof. Peter M. Cryle, Prof. Louis Ignatius Gall and Prof. Javier Díez de Revenga.

* In the seventies he studied classical guitar with Professor Louis Ignatius Gall, one of Segovia's

Master Class Graduates. (More information on the "Articles" page).

* At "The Flinders University of South Australia" he studied Spanish Renaissance and Baroque

literature with Dr. Luis Sánchez-Cuñat, Honorary Consul of Ecuador and a personal friend of the

late Jorge Guillén (Generation of 1927). He also studied contemporary Spanish and Latin-American

literature with Dr. Mari Luz Long, Dr. María del Carmen Robson and Dr. María Helena Lorenzín.

* In 1999 he presented a doctoral thesis to the University of Queensland: "Intertextuality Through

Obscurity. The Poetry of Federico García Lorca and Luis de Góngora". The study was supervised

by Professor Alfredo Martínez Expósito and Professor Peter M. Cryle. It was examined and

approved by Professor María Clementa Millán (UNED, Madrid) and by Professor Francisco Javier

Díez de Revenga (Universidad de Murcia). The study was published by the University Press of the

South (2003). This book was reviewed by Professor R. John McCaw (University of Wisconsin)

in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (TOMO XXXVIII, no. 3, Octubre de 2004, pp. 595-96):

"A well-supported and convincing study."

* Jack de Groot also published Pilgrimage to Santiago. Chronicle of Love (2007) and

Cantos Paraguayos. Poemas de libertad (with Professor Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns, 2008) and

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela Ultimate Handbook (2009) with the same publisher.

Pilgrimage to Santiago. Chronicle of Love was reviewed by the Confraternity of St. James.

(London: in Bulletin, nr 101, March 2008, pp. 40-42) "A worthy addition to any pilgrim's library."

* From 1998 until 2004 Jack de Groot lived in Granada's gypsy quarter ("El Albaycín Alto"),

close to the "Mirador de San Nicolás" (see picture). His paper "¿Existía una relación intertextual

entre García Lorca y Góngora?" features in the Actas del Congreso Internacional 1898 - 1998.

Federico García Lorca: Clásico Moderno (Granada: Diputación de Granada, Biblioteca de

ensayo no. 43, 2000, pp. 312-16).

* In 1995 Jack de Groot was awarded the Australian Poetry Prize "La Hermandad de la tierra del

Espíritu Santo" for his poem "Homenaje a don Luis de Góngora y Argote" by the Honorary Spanish

Consul to South-Australia and Northern Territory, Su Excelencia Hon. Joaquín Artacho Peralta.

 *  In 2009 he became a Member of the Directorial Board of the University Press of the South

    (New Orleans, USA), specializing in Andalusian Poetry (Lorca, Góngora) , the "Camino de Santiago"

    and Spanish Anthropology.

    "All members of the Directorial Board of the University Press of the South would like to extend their warmest welcome to you,

    dear Dr. Jack de Groot, and let you know that they feel indeed honored and privileged to have you as a fellow Member."

    Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns, Managing Director, University Press of the South

 * Jack de Groot's review of Ordeal at the Super Dome. Escaping Katrina's Wrath, a four-act play written by Alain Saint-Saëns, was published

    by the University Press of the South (New Orleans: 2010)