Alan Deyermond

Alan Deyermond FBA (24 February 1932 – 19 September 2009)[1] was a British professor of medieval Spanish literature and Hispanist.

His obituary called him "the English-speaking world's leading scholar of medieval Hispanic literature".

He began his secondary schooling in Liverpool, and switched to Victoria College, Jersey after the family moved in 1946.

Also in 1957, he married Ann Bracken, a History graduate of St Hugh's College, Oxford (they had one daughter, Ruth).

[4] Deyermond's published output was prodigious – 40 books, written or edited, and almost 200 articles ranging through four centuries of medieval Hispanic literature.

A twenty-year research effort culminated in Lost Literature of the Castilian Middle Ages (1995), which Deyermond cited as his favourite work.

Deyermond founded the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar (1968) at Westfield, which has come to attract scholars from around the world.

Deyermond participated in founding Tamesis Books (now part of Boydell & Brewer) and of the series Research Bibliographies & Checklists (Grant & Cutler), of which he was General Editor.

[5] In June 2009 he was elected corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia Española, a distinction granted very few foreign academics.