There are personal and biographical reasons for my interest in the environment as I grew up surrounded by nature. I am fully aware of the dangers we face if we do not care for and protect the planet we inhabit.

Ph.D. in English Philology from the University of Salamanca, María Antonia Mezquita Fernández is a lecturer in the Department of English Philology at the University of Valladolid and has also been a lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology at the University of León. Her topics of interest are related to ecocriticism in comparative literature and popular culture. She has participated in the projects CLYMA (Cultura, Literatura and Medioambiente) (Ref.: IUENUAH 2009-03), ACIS & GALATEA. Actividades de Investigación en Mitocrítica Cultural (Ref.: Ref.: S2015/HUM-3362) and AGLAYA. Estrategias de Innovación en Mitocrítica Cultural (Ref.: H2019/HUM-5714).  Her most recent publications include: "The Roots and Affinities of Dylan Thomas in the Works of Claudio Rodríguez: Sacred Nature in the Poet's Imagination", in Modern Ecopoetry. Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World, 2021; "Las superheroínas rebeldes de los filmes Wonder Woman y Capitana Marvel: su lucha contra la devatación y la opresión ", Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, 44; "Social and Environmental Awareness in the Lyrics of Mike Shinoda "Kenji" and "Nothing makes Sense Anymore"", Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 84; "Ecofeminismo a través del mito: la reinvención del cuento de hadas en Maléfica", Tonos Digital. Revista de Estudios Filológicos, 37; "What I've done": Linkin Park's Environmental Awareness", Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 77 and "Literary Spaces: Visions of Nature and Sense of Place in the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Claudio Rodríguez", Castilla. Estudios de Literatura, 9. Since 2009, she has been a member of the GIECO Research Group in Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities.

Lines of research: sense of place, representation of nature in comparative literature (English and Spanish language poetry), in the crime novel, and in popular culture.