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MARIA DEL ROCIO ORTUÑO CASANOVA - DIRECTOR LABORATORIO INNOV. HUMANIDADES DIGITALES (LINDH)

MARIA DEL ROCIO ORTUÑO CASANOVA

DIRECTOR LABORATORIO INNOV. HUMANIDADES DIGITALES (LINDH)

PROFESORA PERMANENTE LABORAL

LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA Y TEORÍA DE LA LITERATURA

FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA

rocio.ortuno@flog.uned.es

(+34) 91398-+34 913 989 597

Introduction and Academic Career

Rocío Ortuño Casanova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Spanish Literature and Literary Theory and since January 2024 is director of the Laboratory for Innovation and Digital Humanities at the UNED (LINHD).

She completed her DEA in Hispanic Literary Studies at the University of Salamanca with a scholarship for quality doctoral programmes and received her PhD from the University of Manchester (UK) in 2010 with a thesis on biblical intertextuality in the Generation of '27, which includes forgotten women writers of this generation, for which she has been invited to collaborate in collective volumes on this topic (2020, 2022).

In 2012 she became interested in Filipino literature in Spanish. She published an article on the tributes to the Generation of '27 in the poetry of the Filipino writer Federico Espino Licsi and proposed a project to build a Portal of Filipino literature in Spanish, for which she was awarded a two-month stay at the University of the Philippines in Baguio and a grant from the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.

After six years working in the UK at the universities of Manchester, Aston and Salford, in 2013 he started working at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.

In 2014 he published the book, Mitos cristianos en la poesía del 27 and the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library portal was launched. She stayed at the University of the Philippines until 2016 while receiving training in Digital Humanities at the UNED. There, she continued her work of making Hispanic-Filipino literature visible and inserting it in Hispanic literatures with the publication of articles such as "Cultural Ambassadors: reception and significance of Gerardo Diego's trip to the Philippines in the Asian archipelago" (2018) for which he received the International Publication Award from the University of the Philippines.

In 2017 he moved to the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp, where he directed four successful competitive projects, four PhDs still in progress and six dissertations. One of these projects was DigiPhiLit, an Erasmus+ Strategic Knowledge Partnerships project that sought to alleviate the absence of Hispanic-Philippine literature in European university curricula through the digitisation of works, the preparation of data-driven introductory materials created using digital methodologies, and the creation of a MOOC on this topic.

In Antwerp, she was also part of the organising committee of four international conferences and symposia, led two of these committees, and organised four Digital Humanities courses in collaboration with different universities, including UNED.

Before starting to work at UNED, she spent 18 months at the University of Alcalá with a María Zambrano contract for the attraction of international talent (NextGenerationEU funds) as a stay thanks to a 90% leave of absence from her teaching post at the University of Antwerp. There she was co-founder and co-coordinator of the Platform for Digital Humanities and Language Technologies of this university.

She has also participated as a guest lecturer in summer schools on Hispanic-Filipino literature at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2021) and Université Paris Nanterre (2022), on literature and music at the UNED (2018 and 2023) and on literatures on the margins of global Hispanophony in Antwerp in 2023.

In the last five years (2018-2023) he has published 22 articles and book chapters, coordinated two monographic issues in academic journals (452ºF and Kritika Kultura), and with Axel Gasquet has edited two monographic volumes addressing two aspects of Hispanic-Filipino literature: modernity and transnational vocation, one with Brill entitled El desafío de la modernidad en la literatura hispanofilipina (2022) and another with Michigan University Press entitled Transnational Philippines (2024), in open access. He has also coordinated a volume of Introduction to Hispanic-Filipino Literature for Routledge (in press) and with UNED professor Clara Martínez-Cantón and Antonio Huertas of the URJC, he has edited another on Digital Humanities in the Teaching of Literature in Spanish (in press, Peter Lang).

He is a representative of the UNED in the Digital Humanities and Spanish Technologies cluster of the Community of Madrid and in CLARIAH.ES. She is a member of the Bibliodata working group of DARIAH. She has created the Filiteratura database and has been the coordinator of an online exhibition on Philippine press.

Academic positions held

1/9/2023 - Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature at UNED.
1/4/2022-31/8/2023 - María Zambrano Researcher in the research group GILCO (Grupo de Investigación en Literatura Contemporánea), Department of Philology, Communication and Documentation. University of Alcalá (Spain)
1/9/2020 - (On leave of absence between April 2022 until 31 March 2024). Zelfstandig Academisch Personeel (ZAP) at the Department of Literature and researcher at the research group ACDC (Antwerp Center for Digital humanities and literary Criticism) Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium).
1/1/2017-31/8/2020. Doctor Assistant at the Department of Literature of the Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium) and researcher in the research group ACDC (Antwerp Center for Digital humanities and literary Criticism) of the same university.
1/6/2013-31/8/2016. Assistant Professor IV at the University of the Philippines Diliman (Philippines).
1/7/2012-31/5/2013. Lecturer at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom).
1/9/2011-31/8/2012. Lecturer at Salford University (UK).
15/9/2010 -31/5/2011. Teaching Associate at Aston University (UK).
1/10/2008 -31/05/2010. Teaching Fellow (pre-doctoral) at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom).

Research interest

My lines of research focus on

  • 20th century Spanish poetry, on which I did my doctoral thesis, with a special emphasis on the intersection between poetry and music, a subject on which I have participated in two research projects. 
  • Literary and cultural exchanges between the Philippines and Spanish-speaking countries, and in general between Asia and Spanish-speaking cultures. I have worked on colonial texts from a postcolonial critical and decolonial perspective. On this topic I have directed several projects and I develop them in the research groups GILCO (U. Alcalá) and ALTER (UOC).
  • I have an interest in the use of digital methodologies in Humanities research, which I have developed in the ACDC group (U. Antwerpen) and as Principal Investigator of the PhilPeriodicals and DigiPhiLit projects. This has led me to head the Digital Humanities Lab at UNED since January 2024.

Research

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • GILCO (Grupo de Investigación en Literatura Contemporánea) Líneas de investigación prioritarias:  Discurso literario y poder.  Estudios culturales urbanos.  Estudios autoriales.  Estudios de género y sexualidad .  Web  
  • ACDC (Antwerp Center for Digital humanities and literary Criticism) Investigación en Humanidades digitales y crítica literaria con cierto énfasis en análisis digital del texto y crítica genética digital. Web
  • ALTER: Crisis, Otherness and Representation ALTER examina los procesos históricos que subyacen a los fenómenos comparativos, interculturales y transnacionales, así como los paradigmas teóricos que los explican. Se examina una amplia gama de fenómenos culturales, intelectuales, artísticos y literarios relacionados con Asia Oriental desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar. Trabajamos conceptos clave como modernidad, colonialismo y poscolonialismo, transnacionalismo, globalización y discurso. Web

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • PROYECTOS EN LOS QUE HE SIDO INVESTIGADORA PRINCIPAL
    • Proyecto de investigación: DigiPhiLit: Innovations in Methodologies and Syllabus: Digital Humanities and Philippine Literature. Actividad realizada: Coordinación (IP). Universidades participantes: Universidad de Amberes (coordinación), UNED, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Université Paris-Nanterre y Ateneo de Manila University. Entidad financiadora: Erasmus+ KA2 Código 2020-1-BE02-KA203-074821. Importe: 366.203 EUR Duración: Desde el 1-09-2020 hasta el 31-08-2023. Web del proyecto: https://digiphilit.uantwerpen.be/ . Descripción en el repositorio Erasmus+
    • Proyecto de investigación: Decolonizing media discourses in the Philippines: representations of Chinese and Muslim minorities. Actividad realizada: Coordinación (IP). Entidad financiadora: VLIRUOS (Agencia flamenca de cooperación académica)- Global Minds Klein Project. Web del proyecto: https://mnarratives.uantwerpen.be/  Importe: 10.000 EUR. Duración: 01-01-2021 hasta 31-08-2022.
    • Proyecto de investigación: Strengthening Digital Research at the University of the Philippines System: Digitization of Philippine Rare Newspapers and Magazines (1850-1945), and Training in Digital Humanities. Actividad realizada: Co-PI (Cocoordinadora) con Mike Kestemont. Universidades participantes: Universidad de Amberes y Universidad de Filipinas. Entidad financiadora: VLIRUOS(Agencia flamenca de cooperación académica. Web del proyecto: https://hosting.uantwerpen.be/philperiodicals/ Descripción del proyecto en la web de la entidad financiadora: https://www.vliruos.be/en/home/1 . Importe: 249.922 EUR. Duración: Enero 2018 – 31 de agosto de 2022.
    • Proyecto de investigación: Philippines at the Crossroads: a Study of the international presence in the Philippine literary field in Spanish between 1872 and 1945. Actividad realizada: Coordinadora (IP). Entidad financiadora: BOF (Bijzonder Onderzoek Fonden de Flandes, Bélgica). Web del proyecto: https://filiteratura.uantwerpen.be/  Importe: 7.500 EUR. Duración: abril de 2018 – abril de 2019.
    • Proyecto de invesgitación: “Portal de literatura filipina en español”. Financiación: Subvencionado por el Banco Santander. 3000 €. Institución: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Universidad de Alicante. Web del proyecto: www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/literatura_filipina_en_espanol/
  • PROYECTOS EN LOS QUE HE PARTICIPADO COMO INTEGRANTE DEL PLAN DE TRABAJO
    • Proyecto de investigación: «MÁS POEsía para MÁS gente. La poesía en la música popular contemporánea». Actividad realizada: Integrante del plan de trabajo.  Coordinación: UNED por Guillermo Laín (PI) y Clara Martínez Cantón (PI). Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España). (PID2021-125022NB-I00). Importe: 74.173 EUR. Duración: de 07-2022 a 06-2025.
    • Proyecto de investigación: Tafonomías del Conocimiento Intercultural: Interacciones entre Europa y Asia Oriental en los siglos XIX y XX (TACK). Actividad realizada: Integrante del plan de trabajo.  Coordinación: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya por Carles Prado (PI) y David Martínez-Robles (PI). Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España). (PID2019-108637GB-I00). Importe: 45.980 EUR. Duración: De 01-06-2020 a 12-2024.
    • Proyecto de investigación: PoeMAS: Poesía para MÁS gente. Actividad realizada: Integrante del plan de trabajo. Coordinación: UNED por Clara Martínez Cantón (PI) y Guillermo Laín Corona (PI) Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España). (PGC2018-099641-A-I00). Importe: 36.000 EUR. Duración: 1-1-2019 a 31-12-2021. Web del proyecto: https://poemas.uned.es/  
    • Proyecto de investigación: China-Spain Archive. A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Interactions between China and Spain (1850-1950) and their Impact on Colonial and Cross-Cultural Studies. Actividad realizada: Integrante del grupo de trabajo. Coordinación: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya por Carles Prado (PI) y David Martínez-Robles (PI). Web del proyecto: https://ace.uoc.edu/ Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Ref: (ref.: HAR2016-79995-P). Importe: 30.000 EUR. Duración: septiembre de 2017 – diciembre de 2019.
    • 2015 – Miembro del comité científico del proyecto EDI-RED “Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI)”. Coordinación de sección sobre Filipinas. Investigadora Principal: Pura Fernández (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). Grupo de Investigación “Cultura, edición y literatura en el ámbito hispánico”. Financiación: Este proyecto digital, apadrinado por la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, se desarrolla en el marco de varios proyectos de investigación del programa de I+D+i y de la Red Temática de Excelencia Redes transatlánticas: prácticas editoriales de la re(d) pública iberoamericana, financiados por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España. Web del proyecto .Descripción en la página del CSIC: https://bit.ly/39SPUfe     

N.º of recognized sections of research activity

2

Publications

Otros

Other activities

Summer courses

Specific information about summer courses

 Experience in educational, scientific and technological management and administration

Exposición online: Coordinación de la exposición online “Philperiodicals. Online Exhibition on Philippine Historical Newspapers” y autoría de la sección “Literature in the Newspapers”. Descripción de todos los objetos involucrados. Contribuidores: Ramón Guillermo (University of the Philippines), Frances C. Cruz (Universiteit Antwerpen/ University of the Philippines), Georgiana Negrutiu (Universiteit Antwerpen), Emilio Vivó Capdevila (Universiteit Antwerpen), Rocío Ortuño Casanova (Universidad de Alcalá / Universiteit Antwerpen). https://philperiodicals-expo.uantwerpen.be/. 2022

Repositorio: Chito Ángeles, Val Crisóstomo, Rocío Ortuño, Mike Kestemont, Ramón Guillermo, Anna Sarmiento, Dirk Van Hulle. Open Acess Repository at University of the Philippines Diliman. Rare Periodicals. 2021. https://repository.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/

Base de datos: Rocío Ortuño. Filiteratura. Literatura filipina en español y literatura en español sobre Filipinas. 2019: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3227886 https://filiteratura.uantwerpen.be/database/

Repositorio: Rocío Ortuño (coordinadora académica). “Portal de literatura filipina en español”. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (biografías, selección y escaneo de originales y textos introductorios). 2014. https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/literatura_filipina_en_espanol/  Reseñado en El País: Rubén Esquitino ‘Salvando la literatura filipina en español’. Babelia 27 de mayo de 2015. https://elpais.com/cultura/2015/05/11/babelia/1431358601_243060.html