Inma Urena
Inmaculada Ureña Asensio (PhD, 2025) is Lecturer in English at the University of Jaén (Spain). Her research focuses on data modeling, digital scholarly editions and Thomas More studies. For her thesis dissertation, she has developed the project 'A Digital Scholarly Edition of Utopia de Thomas Moro (1637)', available at http://utopiadethomasmoro-digitaledition.com/. In 2023, she was PhD visiting research at Northeastern University (Boston, USA).
Education
2025 • Doctoral studies
Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Sobresaliente Cum Laude
2022 • Certificate in Programming for Digital Humanities
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
2019 • Online Master in English Studies
Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Extraordinary Award
2018 • Degree in English Studies
Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Extraordinary Award, National Prize in the Humanities
Publications
Trabajando con ChatGPT para el etiquetado de textos con TEI. Un caso de estudio
Book chapter • pending
Digital Humanities and Thomas More Studies. States and challenges
Book chapter • 2024
Recommended reading for good governors. Utopia de Thomas Moro (1637)
Article • 2023
Gerónimo de Medinilla translated Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) into Spanish in 1637, more than a century after the text was printed in Leuven. The paratexts of the translation imply that Medinilla might have published his translation with a practical and political intention, which is reminiscent of the first interpretations of the humanist’s work by sixteenth-century Spanish readers. This paper analyzes two textual references from the translation to discuss the hypothesis that it was offered as a manual for governors. It also proposes an original biography of Gerónimo de Medinilla. This will serve to contextualize the translator and the potential final purpose of the edition.
Thomas More’s Portrayal in a Twentieth-Century Translation of Utopia
Article • 2021
Ramón Esquerra i Clivillés (1909-1938), a Spanish intellectual born and raised in Barcelona, published in 1937 Utopia (El Estado Perfecto), a translation of Utopia (1516) by Thomas More. The translator prepared a large prologue in which he minutely details the life and personality of the humanist and introduces Utopia and its reception in Spain. As a result, this illuminating introductory section becomes a brief piece of literary criticism. The way More is presented and how Esquerra emphasizes some of his most personal features creates a particular image of the humanist: that of a saint. The information shown was carefully chosen by the translator, serving from of More’s latest published biographies to construct a useful context for the reader.
Conferences
USSE 25 “Ageing, Intergenerational Relationships and Utopia”
July 2-4 2025 • Universitat de València
Title: Unveiling the Spanish reality in Utopia de Thomas Moro, the 1637 translation of Utopia
VI Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas (HDH 2023)
October 18-20 2023 • Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Title: Un caso de estudio de modelado de datos. Tres alternativas para una edición digital de una traducción de Utopia
Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium
April 28 2023 • Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title: The decision-making process of encoding a Spanish translation of Thomas More's Utopia
Research Interests
- digital editions
- TEI/XML
- the Early Modern Period
- data modeling
- Thomas More and Utopia
- Digital Humanities
Social Links
- Github: https://github.com/miurena
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/inmaurena
- Website: http://utopiadethomasmoro-digitaledition.com/