Manuel Núñez Asencio

Manuel Núñez Asencio (born 1957) is a Dominican Republic linguist, researcher, academic and essayist.

Early life He was born in 1957 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in modern literature from the University of Paris VII (Jussieu Campus) and Paris VIII (Saint Denis Campus). He subsequently specialised in applied linguistics and completed his PhD in applied linguistics at the University of Antilles Guyane (Fort de France).

He has been heavily involved in teaching. He served as professor of literature in the Foreign Languages Degree Program at the Technological University of Santiago in Santo Domingo (UTESA), where he directed the Department of Philosophy and Letters, and as professor of applied linguistics in the master's degree program in linguistics at the University of Santo Domingo (UASD), and in the master's degree program in teaching Spanish at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC). At the Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as at the School of Advanced Studies of the Ministry of Defense, he teaches the subject of geopolitics. He is a full member of the Dominican Academy of Language.