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Nora Fernandez Fernandez
After the division of the old Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the URJC into four new faculties, it is time to appoint the deans. On this occasion, it is Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres who takes office as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
The appointment ceremony was held today, January 12, on the Aranjuez campus, with the presence of the mayoress of Aranjuez.
"There was really a hidden enthusiasm for finally being able to have a faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Rey Juan Carlos University," Esparza assured at the beginning of his speech. "As far as Aranjuez is concerned, we also celebrate that a center is established here in this beautiful town", he added.
“Today we live in a hyper-technical society, dominated by skills and less attention is paid to knowledge that seems of little use, but is really necessary for society to be truly and deeply human”, Esparza pointed out. For this reason, "I extend my congratulations to all of us who are part of this new Faculty, which should not only help us to create our own identity but also to collaborate so that the Arts and Humanities have their role in the training of all students" , Esparza has concluded.
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres (Denia, Alicante, 1964) is a professor of general linguistics, a graduate in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
After defending his doctoral thesis on The Linguistic Ideas of Antonio de Nebrija, he joined a team at the University of Trier, Germany, as a researcher (1993-1994) and worked as a fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a reference organization in scientific investigation. On his return to Spain, he was a professor of General Linguistics at the Complutense University and of Spanish Philology at the University of Vigo, of which he was Vice Dean.
In 2003 he joined the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid as a Language Professor, where he has also been Vice Dean of Research. Since 2009 he has directed the Department of Educational Sciences, Language, Culture and the Arts, attached to the now extinct Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences.
On the other hand, Esparza has directed numerous research projects, fundamentally oriented in three lines: grammatical description of Spanish, linguistic historiography, and contextual linguistics. Since 2008 he is the principal investigator of the Chronological Bibliography of Linguistics, Grammar and Lexicography of Spanish 1801-1860 and 1861-1899 Projects.
Currently, Miguel Ángel Esparza is part of the Advisory Board of well-classified scientific journals, both nationally and internationally.
