Francisco Moreno Fernández

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Moreno-Fernández in 2012

Francisco Moreno-Fernández (born in

sociolinguist
.

Career

Moreno-Fernández holds a

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
.

He is Full Member of the

Mexican Academy of Language
(since 2018).

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.

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