Federico Navarro

Visiting Scholar
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Federico Navarro holds a doctoral degree in linguistics from the University of Valladolid, Spain. He is a professor at the University of O'Higgins, Chile, where he was director of the “Escuela de Educación”. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator in fifteen funded projects in Argentina and Chile and has conducted research at the University of Buenos Aires, the National University General Sarmiento and CONICET, among others. His areas of interest include reading and writing in secondary and higher education, scientific and technical communication, educational linguistics and discourse analysis. He was the first president of the “Latin American Association of Writing Studies in Higher Education and Professional Contexts” (ALES) and the first editor-in-chief of “International Exchanges: Latin America Section of The WAC Clearinghouse”. In addition to more than 150 academic publications, he is the author of “Escribir para aprender: Disciplinas y escritura en la escuela secundaria” (2013) and editor of “Escritura e inclusión en la universidad” (2021).