Manuel Núñez Asencio (born 1957) is a Dominican Republic linguist, researcher, academic and essayist.
As an essayist, he has stood out the most and achieved wide recognition, especially when he ventures from theory, exhaustive analysis and the deconstruction of ideological discourses in the fragmentariness of time, in the changing interstices of historical reality.
Today, Núñez is recognized as one of the most influential contemporary writers of the Dominican Republic.
[1] He has devoted himself to teaching, serving 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—, 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).
His published bibliography includes: The Opening of the Sealed Orchard (Boynayel, Mexico, 1985); The Graphic Essence (lithographs by Andrew Vlady, Mexico 1986); Language and Literature I, II, III, IV (Editorial Santillana, 1996–2000); Language, Companion of the Dominican Nation (2003), among other works.