About
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Dr. Edward “Mac” Test
Department Chair – Theatre, Film and Creative Writing
- 2008 Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2000 M.A., English Literature (Creative Writing Emphasis), Portland State University
- 1988 B.A., English Literature, Carleton College
Edward “Mac” Test is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing, and the Director of the Hemingway Center at Boise State University. Prior to his academic career, Mac fished the Bering Sea for thirteen years where he worked on large factory trawlers as a medic and purser. During those years, when Mac was away from the sea he lived in Mexico. He is fluent in Spanish and has published translations by authors such as Raúl Zurita and Jose Martí. Mac is author of three books of translated poetry, a book of poetry, and numerous articles, essays, and translations published in journals in the U.S. and abroad. His poem, “Reckoning the Dead,” published in Poetry London (2005), was selected by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK for a nautical exhibit. He is the author of two scholarly books. Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), which was short-listed for the 2020 Annual Book Award from the British Society for Literature and Science. His most recent publication is a co-edited translation of a 1626 Spanish play, The Lieutenant Nun: Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso (Routledge, 2025). Mac is recipient of several grants and fellowships: the Idaho Humanities Council Research Grant, National Endowment of the Humanities Summer seminar, Boise State University Research grants, and fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Huntington Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. Mac is currently working on a book about his life on the high seas.
Morrison C105- 2008 Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2000 M.A., English Literature (Creative Writing Emphasis), Portland State University
- 1988 B.A., English Literature, Carleton College
Edward “Mac” Test is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing, and the Director of the Hemingway Center at Boise State University. Prior to his academic career, Mac fished the Bering Sea for thirteen years where he worked on large factory trawlers as a medic and purser. During those years, when Mac was away from the sea he lived in Mexico. He is fluent in Spanish and has published translations by authors such as Raúl Zurita and Jose Martí. Mac is author of three books of translated poetry, a book of poetry, and numerous articles, essays, and translations published in journals in the U.S. and abroad. His poem, “Reckoning the Dead,” published in Poetry London (2005), was selected by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK for a nautical exhibit. He is the author of two scholarly books. Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), which was short-listed for the 2020 Annual Book Award from the British Society for Literature and Science. His most recent publication is a co-edited translation of a 1626 Spanish play, The Lieutenant Nun: Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso (Routledge, 2025). Mac is recipient of several grants and fellowships: the Idaho Humanities Council Research Grant, National Endowment of the Humanities Summer seminar, Boise State University Research grants, and fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Huntington Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. Mac is currently working on a book about his life on the high seas.