The lucense Darío Villanueva, elected director of the RAE – 20minutos.es

The lucense Darío Villanueva was elected Thursday new director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) during the elections which were held during the plenary session, so this position relieves Jose Manuel Blecua, who had already communicated in The meeting his decision not to seek a second term possible

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The Blecua himself has been commissioned to announce the name of his successor, Galician Darío Villanueva, who was elected on the first ballot with the support of 28 of the 35 scholars present and entitled to vote -four of them have left their ballot in white- in a session which also has chosen to Guillermo Rojo as treasurer of the institution and Pedro Alvarez de Miranda, as a librarian.

As for the position of second vowel matter also was in session on Thursday, is reexamine in Parliament next day 18 to most statutes requiring the institution has not been reached.

After the Plenum Blecua congratulated the “brand” new director of the SAR, which will possession in Parliament next January 8, 2015, which has said it will have full support and collaboration in the task of following “a ship that comes to fruition in moments that are not easy.”

Thanking the outgoing president “his deep commitment” and providing their expertise over the past four years as head of the SAR and contributing their knowledge and expertise to it, Villanueva said he was “excited” to this new challenge. “I’m not overwhelmed but grateful for the confidence of my teammates,” she added

Although he stressed that it was not time to advance its agenda for the next four years. Dario Villanueva has emphasized the goal of “stability” of the SAR. In this regard, he explained that in plenary on Thursday already addressed the creation of a “new” management company with its own budget that although at first will be in deficit, is expected in four years begins to be self-sufficient .

For Villanueva, it is time to face “new challenges” to find ourselves in an exciting company with the aim of achieving stability of the Academy. In this respect, explained that although he is aware of the crisis, we must remember that in the last 300 years has also been a crisis and we must see how it has survived the SAR.

He also born president the Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asale), who recalled that in the XXI century has published two editions of the dictionary of the RAE, has referred to the strategic basis of its mandate to point out that to achieve sustainability ” should do based to maximize the services provided to society “.

Monetize products and services

In this line, has opted for a Academy working on his strength in order to eliminate their weaknesses and in terms of opportunities, has emphasized that there are “ways to monetize their products and services” to be granted economic sufficiency.

Asked by layoffs or changes in the personnel of the institution, Villanueva has said he has no plans to carry out a redundancy in the institution, although the Academy has proposed voluntary redundancies agreed with employees. One of the major strengths of the institution, he stressed, is its staff, “in addition to highly qualified has spent years HKSAR”.

That will be the new head of institution From January has ironically to the difficulty of reaching this position since he was elected academician in second vote and was appointed president by absolute majority in first. “With the things well, yes,” replied on what was harder for him.

Academics from 2008

Villanueva took office in Madrid chair ‘D’ of the SAR’s June 8, 2008, vacant by the death of philologist Alonso Zamora Vicente. During the induction ceremony, now the new director of the institution delivered a speech entitled ‘El Quijote before cinema’, with which addressed the preeminence of literature on film.

In this way, the until now secretary of the institution takes over from José Manuel Blecua, who was elected in 2010 by an absolute majority after a first plenary session in which the top rated academics did not get the required majority in the first instance that establish the statutes.

intone, Blecua replaced Víctor García de la Concha, director of the Instituto Cervantes, who remained in this position for 12 years.

Dario Villanueva (Vilalba, Lugo, 1950) is a graduate in Romance Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Doctor of Philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, whose Faculty of Philology was dean from 1987 to 1990.

In June 1994 he was elected rector of the USC, reelected in May 1998. During these years he held a vice-chairmanship of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) and the presidency of the Network of University Libraries (Rebiun). He served on the Board of the Portal Universia SA and created Unirisco Galicia SCR, the first venture capital to finance projects based on knowledge transfer from university to the company.

Currently he is a member of the board and director of the Scientific Council of the Library Foundation Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. He also serves on the board of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and plays literary direction Collection Classics José Antonio de Castro Foundation.

It is honorary president of the Spanish Society of Literature General and Comparative and chaired the Spanish Association of Literary Theory. Affiliated with the International Association of Hispanics, the Spanish Society of Semiotics, the Twentieth Century Spanish Association of America and the International Association of Comparative Literature, where he was a member of its Executive Board.

His books have ‘Path of the current American novel’, written in collaboration with JM Viña Liste and translated into Arabic by the Superior Council of Culture of Egypt (1998) and ‘theories of literary realism’, finalist for the National Essay Prize in 1993, which translates into English dates from 1997.

Her latest books’ Valle-Inclán, novelist Modernism ‘(2005),’ Da word no tempo are entitled. Ensaios Studies and Literature “(2007), written in Galician-language, ‘The poetics of reading Quevedo’ (2007) and ‘The lying fables. Reading, reality, fiction ‘, published in Mexico (second edition, 2011).

In December 2014 Routledge (London / New York) publisher has published’ Introducing Comparative Literature. New Trends and Applications Pictures of the city ‘, the work of Dario Villanueva is coauthor with Cesar Dominguez and Haun Saussy, and in early 2015 a new expanded edition appear’. Poetry and film Whitman Lorca ‘, which received the first International Award for Humanistic Research Society Menéndez Pelayo.