Marta Sánchez Cócera is a predoctoral research fellow in English Linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid. 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.

She currently (2021-2025) holds a predoctoral research fellowship (contrato predoctoral FPU), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. Her thesis, which is supervised by Drs. Elena Martínez Caro and Begoña Núñez Perucha, studies how different forms of technology-facilitated sexual violence and the social actors involved – i.e. victims and perpetrators – are constructed in the discourse of YouTube commenters. Her research interests include critical discourse studies, digital communication, and gender-based (sexual) violence, drawing on social constructionist, cognitive or corpus-assisted approaches to analyze language and discourse.

As part of her fellowship, Marta has been a lecturer at the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature at UCM. She has four years of teaching experience (2020-2024) in a variety of subjects and in different BA degrees: ‘English B1.3.’, ‘English Language and Ideology’ and ‘Discourse and Text in English’ (BA in English Studies); ‘English Language IV (B.2.3)’ (BA in General and Compared Literature); ‘English Syntax’ (BA in Modern Languages and Literatures).  Additionally, she took part in two teaching innovation projects, namely, INNOVA nº46 (2022-2023) and INNOVA nº 110 (2023-2024), working with the educational platform Wooclap and ChatGPT applied to language and linguistics teaching, respectively. 

From September to December 2023, Marta was a visiting PhD student at the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages of the Valencian Community (IULMA), Universitat de València, where she delved into Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) and Social Media Discourse Studies. She worked under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Bou Franch and Dr. Sergio Maruenda Bataller. 

From September to December 2024, Marta was a visiting PhD student at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. During her time at Lancaster, she worked under the supervision of Professor Veronika Koller. Additionally, she took two postgraduate modules, namely, Cognitive Linguistics and Forensic Linguistics, taught by Professor Christopher Hart and Professor Claire Hardaker, respectively. 

As part of her educational and academic progress, she has participated in more than ten international conferences, including CILIDI (2025), EntreTextos (2024), CADS (2024), AESLA (2024, 2022), UPCEL (2024, 2022), HDH (2023), DISGEN1 (2022), CILC (2022), and YRCL (2021). 

Moreover, she has published two journal articles and one book chapter, and is currently working on three more publications:

• Sánchez-Cócera, M., & Cantos-Delgado. C. (in preparation). Digitally mediated solidarity: affective work in YouTube users’ discursive constructions of sexual violence and sexual homicide. 
• 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. (in press). 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.), Agresión a mujeres en plataformas digitales. Tirant lo Blanch.
• 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.

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