Ife, Barry William, b 1947, Professor of Spanish

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Ife, Barry William, b 1947, Professor of Spanish

1947-

Born 16th June 1947; educated at The Sweyne School, Rayleigh, Essex, 1958-1965; London College of Music, ALCM Diploma, 1965; King's College London, Spanish BA Honours (First Class) with French Subsidiary, 1965-1968 and M Phil Spanish, 1968-1969 and 1971-1972; Birkbeck College London, PhD, 1984.

Assistant Lecturer in Spanish, University of Nottingham, 1969-1971; lecturer in Spanish, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1972-1988; appointed Cervantes Chair of Spanish, King's College London, 1988; Head of the School of Humanities, King's College London, 1989-1996; Governor of the Royal Academy of Music, 1996-2004; Vice-Principal, King's College London, 1997-2003; Acting Principal, King's College London, 2003-2004; Principal, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2004; received CBE in the 2000 birthday honours for services to Hispanic studies; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2001 for services to the Academy.

Publications include: Reading and fiction in Golden-Age Spain: a Platonist critique and some picaresque replies (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985); Letters from America: Columbus's first accounts of the 1492 voyage edited and translated by Ife, (London School of Humanities, Kings College London, 1992); Early Spanish keyboard music : an anthology in three volumes edited by Barry Ife and Roy Truby (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986). Ife also edited the Corpus of Contemporary Spanish, a machine-readable 5,250,000 word electronic database of contemporary Spanish language on CD-ROM, funded by King's College London Research Strategy Fund.

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