Professor Edwin williamson

Edwin Williamson holds the King Alfonso XIII Chair of Spanish at Oxford and has been a Professorial Fellow of Exeter College since 2003. He was formerly the Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies at Edinburgh University, and has held academic posts at Trinity College, Dublin, and Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, California, and at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research and teaching reflect his interests in both Latin America and the Golden Age of Spain. His books include The Penguin History of Latin America, and the biography, Borges: A Life, published in 2004 by Viking Penguin.