Francisco A. Marcos-Marín


Francisco Adolfo Marcos-Marín is a linguist, an emeritus professor of Linguistics and Translation at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Previously he was professore ordinario per chiara fama in the Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', catedrático de Lingüística General at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and catedrático de Historia del Español at the Universidad de Valladolid. He is a Corresponding Fellow of Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and Academia Argentina de Letras, and an Honorary Citizen of San Antonio, Texas.

Professional Achievements

Recipient of the Research Award. Academic Director of Instituto Cervantes. Director of the area of Language Industries at the Spanish National Agency for the Development of Programs for the Quincentennial. UNESCO Consultant in Beijing. Coordinator of the in Argentina and Chile, and of the Oral Corpus of Centro-Peninsular Spanish. Scientific Co-Director of , Digital Archive of Spanish Manuscripts and Texts. Director of the Argentina-Spain cooperation project for the preparation of the of the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina and its electronic edition. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Diccionario del Español Medieval Membro del Consiglio Scientifico, Progetto Lingua Italiana Dante Alighieri, Società Dante Alighieri, Italy. Member of several evaluation committees in Argentina, Austria, Egypt, European Union, Germany, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and the United States. In 2015 he was appointed as an Expert of the European Research Council.
The author of more than thirty printed books and more than three hundred papers and reviews published in specialized journals, collective volumes or Festschriften, in several countries in different languages. He has presented more than two hundred communications at international conferences and delivered more than one hundred specialized seminars or workshops in different countries. He has also published two books of poetry and several short stories, and has contributed widely to American, Latin-American and Spanish newspapers, radio and TV broadcasts.

Specialty books