Gwendolyn Leick

Gwendolyn Leick, born in Austria, studied Assyriology at Karl Franzen's University in Graz and has lived in England since 1975. She has taught in Biblical Hebrew at Cardiff University, Anthropology at Glamorgan and Richmond, the American International University in London, and since 1995 History and Theory at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her publications intend to make Assyriological scholarship available to a wider audience and include A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology (1991), Who's Who in the Ancient Near East (1999), Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (1994), Mesopotamia. The invention of the city (2001), and most recently, she edited The Babylonian World (2007) for Routledge.