Francisco Moreno Fernández

He is Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (since 2017), and Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of the Language (since 2013), the Spanish Royal Academy (since 2015), the Chilean Academy of the Language (since 2017), and the Mexican Academy of Language (since 2018).

Moreno-Fernández holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, is Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Alcalá (Spain) and Alexander von Humboldt professor 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 Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). He pursues research in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and applied linguistics. He has been Academic Director of the "Instituto Cervantes" (2008-2013) and a visiting researcher at the universities of London, New York, (SUNY – Albany), Québec (Montreal), and Tokyo as well as visiting professor at Göteborg University (Sweden), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil), University of Illinois at Chicago, Brigham Young University, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Moreno-Fernández was Director of the Cervantes institutes at São Paulo (1998–2001) and Chicago (2001–2005). He was Academic and Research Director of the Comillas Foundation for the study and teaching of Spanish Language and Culture (2006–2008) and Director of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University (Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States) (2013-2018).

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 (Los Angeles), El Diario La Prensa (New York), and La Raza (Chicago) and co-editor of the journals Spanish in Context (John Benjamins) and Journal of Linguistic Geography (Cambridge University Press). 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.

Francisco Moreno-Fernández (born Mota del Cuervo, Spain, 1960) is a Spanish dialectologist and sociolinguist.