The philologist Dolores Corbella Díaz has been chosen as a candidate to occupy chair “d” of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), vacant since the death of Francisco Rodríguez Adrados on July 24, 2020.
The candidacy of Corbella (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1959) has been approved in this Thursday’s session of the Plenary Session of the Royal Spanish Academy, according to the RAE on its website.
The call for this number academic position was published in the Official State Gazette on January 3, 2022.
The reading of the praise and merits of the candidate will take place in the plenary session on February 10 and the vote will take place on the 17th.
The RAE has a total of 46 academic chairs, and, in addition to “d”, the letters “a”, “q” and “x” are currently vacant, whose previous holders were, respectively, the philologists Manuel Seco and Gregorio Salvador Caja, and the poet Francisco Brines.