Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5564-2372

José Luis Ramírez Luengo earned a doctorate in Spanish philology from the Universidad de Deusto, Spain, and is now a professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has also taught at the Universidad de Jaén, Spain, and the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico, and he was a Ramón y Cajal research fellow at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He has been invited to collaborate at numerous institutions of higher learning in Europe (Austria, Italy, and Hungary) and Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Uruguay).

His principal areas of research are the modern history of the Spanish language in Spain and the Americas, the history of linguistic contact between Spanish and Portuguese, and the development of modern orthography. He has participated in 15 national and international projects on these topics—in three as principal investigator—and has published extensively (15 books, 25 book chapters, 20 contributions to collective volumes, 82 journal articles, and 28 reviews). These include his Historia del español de América (Madrid: Arco Libros, 2007, 2014, 2017, 2019), La lengua que hablaban los próceres (Buenos Aires: Voces del Sur, 2011), Descripción del español de mediados del siglo XVIII (1757-1763) (Lugo: Axac, 2013), and Textos para la historia del español, XI. Honduras y El Salvador (Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá, 2017).

He has also been recognized through membership in the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI 1: 2015-17; SNI 2: 2018-20); invitations to participate on the research committees of 17 national and international conferences and seven international journals; and membership on research evaluation committees in Spain (ANEP) and in other countries (Mexico: Conacyt, UAQ, SEP; Costa Rica: INIL-UCR).