Francisco Moreno Fernández


Francisco Moreno-Fernández is a Spanish dialectologist and sociolinguist.

Career

Moreno-Fernández holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, is Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Alcalá and Alexander von Humboldtprofessor at Heidelberg University. Since acceptance of this professorship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and endowed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research he is directing the . He pursues research in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and applied linguistics. He has been Academic Director of the "Instituto Cervantes" and a visiting researcher at the universities of London, New York,, Québec, and Tokyo as well as visiting professor at Göteborg University, Universidade de Sao Paulo, University of Illinois at Chicago, Brigham Young University, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He is Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, and Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of the Language, the Spanish Royal Academy, the Chilean Academy of the Language, and the Mexican Academy of Language.
Moreno-Fernández was Director of the Cervantes institutes at São Paulo and Chicago. He was Academic and Research Director of the Comillas Foundation for the study and teaching of Spanish Language and Culture and Director of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University .
In 1998, he coordinated the first Cervantes Institute Yearbook. Spanish in the World. He has been a columnist in several American journals in Spanish: La Opinión, Diario. La Prensa, and La Raza and co-editor of the journals Spanish in Context and Journal of Linguistic Geography. He was founder and first general editor of the journal Lengua y migración / Language & Migration. He belongs to the Editorial Board of the journals: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Journal of World Languages, Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile, Lingüística Española Actual, Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, and Oralia.

Books