| Author Bio Dennis McCarthy may be the only researcher to have published papers in the leading journals of such disparate disciplines as geophysics, biogeography, and English literature. In a 2007 paper in The Journal of Geophysical Research, McCarthy generated widespread acclaim when he became the first researcher to provide the correct explanation for the lopsided ocean-continent distribution of the Earth. Specifically, the paper explained why the Southern Hemisphere is so oceanic while the Northern Hemisphere is crowded with continental crust. This became the subject of a number of news reports throughout the world, and Der Spiegel, the largest news magazine in Europe, devoted a large article ( English translation) to this JGR paper. McCarthy's work in English literature includes a 2009 paper for Oxford's journal of literary scholarship, Notes and Queries, in which he became the first researcher to reveal the long-sought source for Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy. He has also recently completed a revolutionary work on Shakespeare, which will soon be submitted for representation and publication. McCarthy is currently a research associate at the Buffalo Museum of Science and is on the editorial board of Biogeography & Systematics. |
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Dennis McCarthy / Author Bio
| Here Be Dragons (Oxford University Press) |