María Goicoechea de Jorge

María Goicoechea de Jorge is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature II (Literature of English-Speaking Countries) at the Faculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She is a leading researcher in digital literature and cyberculture studies, with a focus on electronic textuality and reading practices in digital environments. As Principal Investigator of the eLITE-CM project on Electronic Literary Edition, she contributes significantly to the development of digital literary studies in Spain and internationally.

• English Philology, University Complutense of Madrid
• Studies at University of East Anglia (UK)
• Master's Degree in Intercultural Communication, University of Maryland Baltimore County (USA)
• Doctoral dissertation: "The Reader in Cyberspace: A Literary Ethnography of Cyberculture" (2004)

Professor Goicoechea's research focuses on literary theory, ethnography of reading, and cyberculture. She investigates interculturality and electronic textuality, distant reading, and computational stylistics. Her work explores how digital technologies transform literary creation, reading practices, and the concept of authorship. She is particularly interested in postdigital recycling practices in literature and the emergence of new literary forms in digital environments, examining how traditional literary concepts adapt to contemporary digital contexts.

Her recent publications reveal a strong focus on postdigital recycling in literature, digital reading practices, and electronic literature. She examines how contemporary authors repurpose digital and analog elements in innovative ways, with particular attention to Spanish-language digital literature. Her work also explores the intersection of theater and digital technologies, children's literature in digital formats, and the development of digital repositories for preserving electronic literary works. This research trajectory demonstrates her commitment to documenting and analyzing the evolving landscape of digital literary production.

Professor Goicoechea is Principal Investigator of the eLITE-CM project on Electronic Literary Edition, which addresses concerns about reading education in the face of increasing use of interactive screen media by children. She has supervised one completed PhD dissertation on Authorship in the Digital Era and currently supervises three literary doctoral dissertations along with one co-supervision in forensic linguistics and computational stylistics.

She is an active member of LEETHI (Literaturas Españolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipermedia), a research group from the University Complutense of Madrid, and HERMENEIA (Universitat de Barcelona), two interdisciplinary groups dedicated to studying literature in the digital era. Through the Ciberia Project, she has contributed to building a digital archive dedicated to digital literature in Spanish, fostering community building around this emerging field.