Speakers

Darío Villanueva has a degree in Romance Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela and a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is a professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, of whose Faculty of Philology he was Director between 1987 and 1990 and Rector of the same University between 1994 and 2002. Since October 2020 he is Emeritus Professor at USC. He is a correspondent of the Argentine Academy of Letters, appointed in 2002; from the National Academy of Letters of Uruguay, appointed in 2015; from the Cuban Academy of Language, appointed in 2016; from the Honduran Academy of Language, appointed in 2018; of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, appointed in 2018, and of the Equatorial Guinean Academy of the Spanish Language, appointed in 2019. He has been an honorary academic of the Colombian Academy of the Language since 2018. And corresponding academician of the Accademia della Crusca de Florencia, appointed in 2016. In addition, he is an honorary doctor from fourteen universities in Argentina, China, the United States, Peru, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Spain and Honduras. And honorary professor at two universities in the Dominican Republic and Argentina .

He has been elected RAE académico numerario since July 5, 2007. He entered on June 8, 2008 with the speech entitled “Don Quixote” before the cinema.

Director of the RAE institution from January 8, 2015 to January 10, 2019. He was in charge of the RAE secretariat from January 2010 to January 2015.

He was an nato member of the Spanish Council of State between 2015 and 2019.