Alan Deyermond FBA (24 February 1932 - 19 September 2009) was a British professor of Medieval Spanish Literature and Hispanist. His obituary cited him as the English-speaking world's leading scholar of medieval Hispanic literature. He spent his academic career associated with one University of London college, Queen Mary and Westfield.
Deyermond started his career in 1955 as a lecturer at Westfield College, London. When Westfield merged with Queen Mary College in 1992, he moved to the Mile End site. In the period 1978-1980 he held a joint chair at Westfield and at Princeton University.
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