Malcolm K Read

Malcolm K. Read was born in Derby, England, in 1945. Educated at Bristol University, Professor Read gained his PhD at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he lectured in Spanish from 1968 to 1980. He was lecturer and senior lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand, from 1980 to 1993, during which time he held a visiting professorship at the University of the West Indies, in Jamaica (1987). He moved to the USA in 1993 to become Chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught until his retirement in 2012.