Marta Sánchez Cócera
Marta Sánchez Cócera is an interim lecturer at the Department of English Studies, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She holds a BA in English Studies from Complutense University of Madrid (2020, with Distinction in her final thesis) and an MA in English Linguistics and International Communication (2021, Excellent Grades Award) from the same university. During her undergraduate years, she obtained the Excellent Grades Award (2019-2020, Autonomous Community of Madrid) and the Collaboration Grant (2019-2020), awarded by the Complutense University of Madrid, thanks to which she collaborated with the Department of English Studies (UCM) in carrying out research tasks.
During the period 2021-2025, she held a predoctoral research fellowship (FPU), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, to conduct her PhD, which studies how different forms of technology-facilitated sexual violence and the social actors involved are constructed in the discourse of YouTube commenters. Her research interests include critical discourse studies, digitally mediated communication, and gender-based (sexual) violence, drawing on social constructionist, cognitive or corpus-assisted approaches to analyze language and discourse.
Marta has six years of teaching experience at university (2020-2026), having taught multiple subjects on English language and linguistics: English B.1.3. and B.2.3, ‘English Language and Ideology’, ‘Discourse and Text in English’, ‘English Syntax’, ‘Introduction to English Grammar’ and ‘English Language Teaching Methodology’. Additionally, she is/has been involved in three teaching innovation projects, dealing with the integration of the educational platform Wooclap and the AI tool ChatGPT in language and linguistics classes (INNOVA nº46 2022-2023 and INNOVA nº 110 2023-2024), as well as exploring attitudes about linguistic diversity among students and teachers of English language and linguistics (INNOVA 2026-2027). Moreover, she is currently a member of a Learning and service project which aims to educate about bilingualism beyond academia, debunking myths and democratizing scientific knowledge on L2 learning (ApS nº60 2025-2026).
As part of her research trajectory, she has participated in more than ten international conferences, including CILIDI (2025), EntreTextos (2024), CADS (2024), AESLA (2024, 2022), DISGEN1 (2022), or CILC (2022), among others. Regarding research mobility, Marta has been a visiting PhD student at the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages of the Valencian Community (IULMA), Universitat de València under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Bou Franch and Dr. Sergio Maruenda Bataller (September-December 2023), as well as at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University (September-December 2024), where she worked under the supervision of Professor Veronika Koller and took two postgraduate modules, namely, Cognitive Linguistics and Forensic Linguistics, taught by Professor Christopher Hart and Professor Claire Hardaker, respectively.
Her research output includes several publications in linguistics and (critical) discourse studies:
- Sánchez-Cócera, M. (in press, 2026). Framing Victimhood and Perpetration in Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Discursive Insights from User-generated YouTube Comments on a Sextortion Case. In M. M. Del Saz-Rubio (Ed.), Aggression and Hostility against Women on Social Media Platforms: Discourses of Hate, Violence, and Resistance (pp. 93-125). Tirant lo Blanch.
- Sánchez-Cócera, M. & Cantos-Delgado, C. (in press, 2026). Discourses of solidarity: Linguistic representations of sexual violence in YouTube comments. In R. Casañ-Pitarch (Ed.), Emerging Trends in Discourse Analysis and Translation: Social Media, Digital Accessibility, and AI. Tirant Humanidades: Tirant lo Blanch.
- Sánchez-Cócera, M. (under review). Revisiting the Vietnam War through a discursive lens: Johnson’s and Nixon’s war rhetoric, stance and legitimation. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies.
- Sánchez Cócera, M. (2024). ‘Stupid Girls’ vs. ‘Real Men’: Identity Construction and Social Media Polarization over Revenge Porn. Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina De Estudios Ingleses, (41), 129–149. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2024.41.06
- Sánchez Cócera, M. (2024). The construction of victim accountability in the discourse of female survivors of sexual violence (Insights from online blogging). In S. Maruenda, L. Mercé & E. Castellano-Ortolà (Eds.), Discourse, gender, and violence. Insights from news and social media texts (pp.131-150). Peter Lang.
- Sánchez Cócera, M. & de la Villa Vecilla, I. (2022). A sociolinguistic study of taboo expressions in Spanish from Spain: usage and attitudes. Estudios interlingüísticos, (10), 159-174.