My interest in languages and literature led me to study English Philology. Ecocriticism as a theoretical approach to the study of the relationships between literature, culture and nature provides me with the ideal framework in which to develop my anthrozoological interests. I am a vegan ecofeminist, and I understand my teaching and research practice as a form of academic activism.

Margarita holds a PhD with distinction in English Philology from the University of Granada and is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English and German Philologies at the University of Granada, where she teaches in the BA in English Studies and the MA in English Literature and Linguistics, which she coordinated from 2017 to 2021. She has been a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics since 2015. Her research focuses on the study of English-language literature and other artistic discourses from an ecocritical perspective, with an ecofeminist and posthumanist stance. She has been invited as a resident researcher at several UK universities (East London, Leicester and Oxford), at Taras Schevchenko University in Kiev, and at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In September 2018 she was appointed Vice-President of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment and served as President from November 2020 to September 2022.

More information can be found on her websites www.humanimalidades.com and https://margaritacarreterogonzalez.academia.edu  

Lines of research: ecocriticism, English literature and other artistic discourses, ecofeminism, posthumanism, animal ethics, cognitive empathy, vegan studies.