Lee Six, Abigail 1960- (Abigail Etta Lee Six)

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Lee Six, Abigail 1960- (Abigail Etta Lee Six)

PERSONAL:

Born June 30, 1960, in London, England; daughter of David Cyril (a composer and pianist) and Rita Leila (a schoolteacher) Lee; married Jean-Louis Arthur Emile Six (a diplomat), April 1, 1989. Ethnicity: "Jewish." Education: Cambridge University, B.A. (with honors), 1983, M.A., and Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, research fellow in Spanish at Sidney Sussex College, 1986-88; University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, England, lecturer, 1988-97, senior lecturer in Hispanic studies, 1997-2000; University of London, Royal Holloway College, professor of Spanish, 2000—.

MEMBER:

Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.

WRITINGS:

Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1990.

Juan Goytisolo: Campos de Nijar, Grant & Cutler (London, England), 1996.

(Translator and editor) Benito Perez Galdos, Inferno, Phoenix House (London, England), 1998.

Upgrade Your Spanish, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.

The Gothic Fiction of Adelaida García Morales: Haunting Words, Boydell & Brewer (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor of articles and reviews to language and Hispanic studies journals and newspapers.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Times Literary Supplement, July 6, 1990, review of Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos.