King pictured with his copy of the Elihu Barker map of Kentucky, which was originally printed in Philadelphia in 1793 and features the toponym "Barataria" at the confluence of the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers
Graduate student Ashford King's article, "The Various Baratarias: Quixotic Toponymy in the Americas," was recently published in the fall 2023 number of Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America. In the article, he examines the cultural practice of place-naming as inspired by Cervantes's Quixote, and as applied in the Caribbean and North America (specifically in Louisiana, Trinidad, South Carolina, and Kentucky). The article began as a term paper for Professor Marina Brownlee's fall 2021 seminar "The Library, the Ruin, and the Labyrinth In the Hispanic Baroque.""