The Diplomat
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) has inducted the director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York, Richard Bueno Hudson, as a member of this institution that serves 60 million Hispanics in the United States.
As reported this week by the Instituto Cervantes, ANLE has approved the incorporation of Bueno, a philologist and researcher in the teaching of foreign languages, because of his career and commitment to Hispanism at the international level and “in consideration of the linguistic knowledge, literary merits and other accomplishments that concur in Richard Bueno Hudson”.
ANLE, one of 23 Spanish language academies serving nearly 600 million Spanish speakers worldwide, has as its mission the study, development and implementation of the normative rules of U.S. Spanish.
Carlos E. Paldao, director of ANLE, declared that “this decision, adopted unanimously, is the first step to recognize his relevant contributions and academic conditions”. For his part, ANLE’s honorary director, Gerardo Piña-Rosales, stated that, “without a doubt, Bueno Hudson, with his great linguistic knowledge and his enthusiastic dedication to promoting the Spanish language in the United States, has much to offer ANLE.”
“For years I have dedicated my research, personal and professional career to the study, dissemination and promotion of the Spanish language and the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries, and it is in the United States where one can appreciate in a more tangible way the importance of its unity as well as its diversity,” said Bueno Hudson in his words of thanks.
- in Philology from the University of Salamanca and a BA in Philology from the University of Oviedo, Richard Bueno Hudson (Leicester, UK, 1963) completed his postgraduate studies at the universities of Oviedo and Aston (Birmingham, UK). A career civil servant in the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, he has been director of the Instituto Cervantes in New York since September 2019.
Apart from that, he is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the USA at Harvard University, of the Scientific Committee of the British publishing company Routledge, of the Study and Research Group in Specialty Spanish (Geres, based in France) and of the International Congress on historical links between Spain and North America. His areas of research and specialization focus on foreign language acquisition, didactics and certification, phonetics and language varieties.
