Graduated from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City with an honours BA in Hispanic Literature (Letras Hispánicas). He wrote his thesis on the theatre of Lope de Rueda under the supervision of Dr. Gustavo Illades. Urani currently holds a scholarship from the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) and is in his fourth year of study for a doctorate in Hispanic Studies. He is part of the project The Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the First Atlantic Culture, co-ordinated by Juan-Luis Suárez, who is also advising his final dissertation, entitled Ontología de personajes barrocos: la red de comunicación jesuita. At this moment he is teaching a course on Spanish-American Civilization (Sp 2219G). His work has been accepted in different academic journals: Bulletin of the Comediantes, Signos Literarios, Espéculo, Latin American Perspectives, and Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies. In the latter there will appear a study on the cultural replication between the Jesuit missions of New France and an hagiography of New Spain.