The North American Academy of the Spanish Language is an institution made up of prominent Hispanicists, including writers, poets, professors, educators and experts in the language

Language

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 itself, whose mission it is to support and promote the study and correct usage of Spanish

Spanish language

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 in the United States

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, including Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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. The Academia, established in New York

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 in 1973, is a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española

Real Academia Española

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 (Royal Spanish Academy of the Language) and a member of the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (Association of Academies of the Spanish Language), in Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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.

Directors of the Academy:

• Carlos McHale (1973–1978)
• Odón Betanzos Palacios
  Odón Betanzos Palacios
  Odón Betanzos Palacios was a Spanish writer who lived in New York since 1956 until his death in 2007. Odón Betanzos was a tenured member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, which is a Director and Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Guatemalan, Filipino,...
  
   (1978–2007)
• Gerardo Piña-Rosales (2008–present)

Members

The Academy currently has 32 full members and over 50 corresponding members. The Academy has over 20 collaborating members.

Fellows of the Academy

• Sr. D. Theodore S. Beardsley.
• Sr. D. Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez.
• Sr. D. Roberto Garza Sánchez.
• Sr. D. Roberto A. Galván.
• Sr. D. Stanislav Zimic.
• Sr. D. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
  Rolando Hinojosa
  Rolando Hinojosa is a novelist, essayist, poet and the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin.-Life and career:...
  
  .
• Sr. D. Carlos Alberto Solé.
• Sr. D. Gerardo Piña-Rosales.
• Sr. D. John J. Nitti.
• Sr. D. Joaquín Segura.
• Sr. D. Emilio Bernal Labrada.
• Sra. D.ª Beatriz Varela.
• Sr. D. Luis Pérez Botero.
• Sr. D. Nicolás Toscano Liria.
• Sr. D. Marcos Antonio Ramos.
• Sra. D.ª Estelle Irizarry.
• Sr. D. Mordecai Rubin.
• Sr. D. Ubaldo di Benedetto.
• Sr. D. Robert Lima.
• Sr. D. Ignacio Soldevila-Durante.
• Sra. D.ª Silvia Faitelson-Weiser.
• Sr. D. Antonio Culebras.
• Sr. D. José Amor y Vázquez.
• Sr. D. William H. González.
• Sr. D. Raúl Miranda Rico.
• Sr. D. Antonio Garrido Moraga.
• Sr. D. Robert J. Blake.
• Sr. D. Juan Manuel Pascual.
• Sr. D. Orlando Rodríguez Sardiñas
• Sr. D. Jorge I. Covarrubias
• Sr. D. Janet Pérez
• Sr. D. Milton Azevedo

Corresponding Members

• Sr. D. Joaquín Badajoz
• D. Christian Rubio
• Sr. D. Daniel Fernández
• Sr. D. Frank Gómez
• Prof. Dr. Francisco A. Marcos-Marín
  Francisco A. Marcos-Marín
  Francisco A. Marcos-Marín is a linguist, a professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Previously he was professore ordinario per chiara fama in the Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', catedrático de Lingüística General at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and...
  
  
• Sra. Da. Leticia Molinero

Collaborators

• D. Luis Ríos
• D. Porfirio Rodríguez
• D.ª Laura Godfrey
• D. Isaac Goldemberg
• D. German Carrillo
• D.ª Vanessa Lago
• D.ª Cristina Bertrand
• D. Mario Martínez y Palacios
• D. Alister Ramírez Márquez
• D.ª María Eugenia Caseiro
• D.ª Adriana Bianco
• D. Jesús López Peláez
• D. Fernando Walker
• D.ª Aurora Humarán
• D. Alfredo Ardila
• D.ª María de la Paz Fernández
• D.ª Silvia Betti
• D.ª Mary S. Vásquez
• D.ª Maria Cornelio
• D.a Élida Marcela Testai, MD

Board of Directors

• D. Gerardo Piña-Rosales, Director.
• D. Jorge I. Covarrubias, Secretary.
• D. Emilio Bernal Labrada, Treasurer.
• D. Joaquín Segura, Censor.
• D. Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Director of the Boletín.
• D. Theodore S. Beardsley, Librarian.

External links

• North American Academy of the Spanish Language (Official Academy site)
  • Introduction
  • Donations
  • Notices