Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo. Born September 7, 1945 in Lubrín (Almería, Spain). Adopted Son of the town of Los Santos de Maimona (Badajoz, Spain). Philologist. He is a professor of research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) [National Council for Scientific Research] in Madrid and distinguished university professor.

Known primarily for his contributions to the progress of semiotics in the field of Hispanic philology, he has been the promoter of the International Conference on Semiotics and Hispanism (Madrid, 1983), first president of the Spanish Association of Semiotics (1983–1987), member of the executive committee of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (1983–1998), advisor for Arts and Social Sciences to the CSIC chairmanship (1996 -2000), member from 1999 to 2001 of the International Committee of Experts in charge of Italian Encyclopedia, Delegate of the International Union of Academies (1999–2005), president of the Spanish Association of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (2001–2005), promoter of Institut for Spanish Language (2000–2002), director of the "Curso de Alta Especialización en Filología Hispánica" and general director of the Chair "Dámaso Alonso", for the cooperation between European and American universities (2000–2012). He taught regular courses in the universities of Seville, Navarre and Madrid Complutense (35 years) and had given speeches, seminars and Ph.D. Courses in other universities from 25 countries and four continents.

Currently, he is director of the Spanish Dictionary of International Literary Terms, director of the Culture Division of the  “Obra Pía de Los Pizarro” Foundation and editor of the Nueva Revista de Política Cultura y Arte.

For 30 years (1980–2010) he has been director of  Revista de Literatura (CSIC) and member of the supervisory body of 25 Spanish and international journals and bibliographic collections. He is author of  a large collection of works on language theory and about the Spanish Language, Culture and Literature.

He is also correspondent member of the Academia Argentina de Letras, of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua and of the Academia Nacional de Letras, del Uruguay. 

Among other distinctions, Garrido Gallardo has been awarded with the prize Antonio of Nebrija (2011), the prize 'Julian Marias' of research in human and social sciences (2012), the prize 'Castelar' (2013) and the international 'Menéndez Pelayo' award (2016).