Maria Gkoutziomitrou
Maria Gkoutziomitrou is a predoctoral research fellow in English Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2018). During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded an Erasmus+ Studies scholarship, through which she spent a semester (Spring 2015-2016) at Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
In 2022, she completed the MA in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid (with Distinction in her final thesis). Her MA dissertation, supervised by Dr. Begoña Núñez Perucha, examined the representation of social actors in the digital discourse of male survivors of sexual violence.
Maria currently holds a predoctoral research scholarship (contrato predoctoral FPI, 2023-2027), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and associated with the research project Experimental Techniques in Sociolinguistic Research: Methodological Effects in the Study of Language Attitudes [Técnicas Experimentales en Sociolingüística: Efectos Metodológicos en el Estudio de las Actitudes Lingüísticas] (SOCRATTEX) (PID2021-127101NB-I0). Her PhD thesis, supervised by the project’s principal investigator, Dr. Gitte Kristiansen, focuses on experimental methods in the area of cognitive sociolinguistics. Her main research interests include sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and critical discourse analysis.
At present, she is a lecturer at the Department of English Studies (UCM). As part of her academic process, she has attended several international conferences and presented her works in three of them. Moreover, she has published one book chapter:
- Gkoutziomitrou, M. (2024). The representation of social actors in male survivors' digitally-recounted experiences of sexual violence. In S. Maruenda, L. Mercé & E. Castellano-Ortolà (Eds.), Discourse, gender, and violence: Insights from news and social media texts (pp. 209-235). Peter Lang Verlag.
Maria is also part of the STAM-Lab Team, the student committee of the PhD programme, which organises activities for the PhD community.
For any further questions, please feel free to get in touch via mgkoutzi@ucm.es.