John Joseph Macklin

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John Joseph Macklin (born October 9, 1947 , † August 2014 ) was a British Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Macklin graduated from Queen's University Belfast . He received his PhD in 1976 with the thesis Tradition and Innovation. Narrative Technique in the Novels of Ramón Pérez de Ayala and went to the University of Hull as a lecturer .

From 1987 to 2001 he worked at the University of Leeds , first as Cowdray Professor and Head of the Spanish and Portuguese Department, then as Dean and Vice Rector.

From 2001 to 2005 he was Rector of the University of Paisley , which later took the name University of the West of Scotland . From 2005 to 2010 Macklin was Professor of Spanish in Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde , and from 2010 to his retirement in 2013 at the University of Glasgow . From 2007 he was visiting professor at the University of Ulster .

Macklin was Commander in the Orden de Isabel la Católica (1994).

Works

  • Perez de Ayala. Tigre Juan and El curanderi de su honra , London 1980 (Critical guides to Spanish texts 28)
  • (with John Jones) ¡Que bien! An intensive course in Spanish for beginners , Hull 1987
  • The window and the garden. The modernist fictions of Ramón Pérez de Ayala , Boulder 1988
  • (Ed.) After Cervantes. A celebration of 75 years of Iberian Studies at Leeds , Leeds 1993
  • (with Judith Drinkwater and Ruth Christie) The Scripted Self. Textual Identities in Contemporary Spanish Narrative , Warminster 1995
  • (Ed. With Margaret A. Rees) Convivium. Celebratory essays for Ronald Cueto , Leeds 1997
  • (Ed. And translator) Miguel de Unamuno , Mist. Niebla , Oxford 2014 (bilingual)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary of August 21, 2014 , online, (English)
  2. ↑ University of Ulster Macklin Profile 2008 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , online, accessed September 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arts.ulster.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Macklin, John Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romanist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1947
DATE OF DEATH August 2014