Academic Information

Laura Hernández Lorenzo holds a degree in Hispanic Philology (2013) and a PhD in Philological and Linguistic Studies (2020), with international mention and Cum Laude, from the University of Seville.

She also holds a Master's Degree in Spanish Language and Literature (2014) and a Master's Degree in Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies: Specialisation in Literary and Cultural Studies (2015), both from the University of Seville.

Academic positions held

Laura Hernández Lorenzo is currently a Juan de la Cierva researcher in the Department of Spanish Literature and Literary Theory at the UNED.

At the begining of her academic career, she obtained a FPU predoctoral contract (2015-2019) at the Department of Spanish and Latin American Literature of the University of Seville. Subsequently, she worked as postdoc in the european project POSTDATA "Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data" (ERC-2015-STG-679528), developed at the UNED (2020-2021), as an Assistant professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2021-2022), where he has been a postdoc in the project "Large-Scale Text Analysis and Methodological Foundations of Computational Stylistics" (SONATA-BIS 2017/26/E/HS2/01019), funded by the Polish National Science Centre, and as a Margarita Salas postdoct (2022).

During her predoctoral stage, she visited the University of Pavia (2017), where she taught Spanish as a foreign language, the Polish Academy of Sciences (2018), and  the Universität Julius-Maximilians of Würzburg (2018). In addition, she collaborated in teaching activities at the MA in Digital Humanities and the PhD programme in Humanities and Digital Society at UNIR.

Research activity

Her research focuses on the intersection between Digital Humanities, more specifically Computational Literary Studies and Stylometry, and Spanish Literature. Her doctoral thesis, entitled "Los textos poéticos de Fernando de Herrera: aproximaciones desde la Estilística de corpus y la Estilometría", and supervised by Prof. Dr. Juan Montero, addresses the textual and authorship problems of Herrera's poetic works. It combines methods from Digital Humanities, Computational Stylistics and Stylometry with Philology and the History of Literature. She has been awarded the Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Digital Humanities by the BBVA and the HDH, as well as the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize by the University of Seville.

Her predoctoral and postdoctoral works have shed new light on Fernando de Herrera's poetry of dubious authorship and its main stylistic features, evaluated the effectiveness of stylometric methods applied to Renaissance and Baroque poets, and made innovative contributions to the poetic evolution from the Renaissance to the Baroque, with special attention to the role of Herrera. She has been invited to give lectures at the University of Verona, the University of Paris Sorbonne, the UAM, the University of Seville, the University of Zurich, the University of Wroclaw and the UAB.

She is currently developing her research as part of the groups Poesía Andaluza del Siglo de Oro (HUM241) and Bibliografía de Escritoras españolas (BIESES). She has participated at the research funded projects "From the Subject to the Literary Institution in the Modern Age: Mediation Processes" (PI: Prof. Dr. Juan Montero and Prof. Dr. Isabel Román) and "Towards Literary Institutionalisation: Controversies and Historiographical Debates (1500-1844)" (PI: Prof. Dr. Mercedes Comellas and Prof. Dr. Juan Montero).