Academic Information

Clara I. Martínez Cantón works in the Department of Spanish Literature and Literary Theory at the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).
She  graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of León (2006).
She received a scholarship for university teacher training and received her PhD at the UNED with an extraordinary prize in 2011.
She has also completed other specialized courses related to her teaching, such as the Master's Degree in Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of León (2011) and the Master's Degree in Libraries and Digital Information Services at the University Carlos III of Madrid (2020).

Academic positions held

She has 12 years of experience in university teaching, including graduate (BA) and postgraduate (MA) modules, and PhD supervision. She is a member of the group for teaching innovation LITeratura, TEoRía y Aprendizaje (LITTERA: Nº: GID2017-8), which has received 5 funded projects.

2020-present Associate Professor of University. Department of Spanish Literature and Theory of Literature. UNED (Headquarters, Madrid).

2013-present  Intercampus Tutor of the Associated Center UNED of Madrid.

Research activity

Her research lines are related to metrics, poetry and Digital Humanities, especially regarding the computational treatment of metrical and stylistic concepts. She has published on conceptual modeling of poetry for computational treatment, on a systematic digital edition of poetics, and on the computational analysis of a stylistic feature (enjambment). She has papers, as well, dealing with oral poetry phenomena, such as slam poetry or lyrics.

Between 2019 and 2021, she has been Principal Investigator of Project PoeMAS, together with Guillermo Laín Corona, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (PGC2018-099641-A-I00). She acts as local coordinator for the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnershipm Project: “Innovations in  Methodologies and Syllabus: Digital Humanities and Philippine Literature” (2020-1-BE02-KA203-074821).

Educational management experience

She is actively involved in administrative work in her university. She is currently Academic Secretary of the UNED Master in Formación e Investigación Literaria y Teatral en el Contexto Europeo.
She has been Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Philology at the UNED and Secretary at the Department of Spanish Literature and Theory of Literature of the UNED.