Writing as Breathing: Hope, Resistance and Poetry, An Interview with Donya Abu Sitta

María Martín Ortega is a second-year PhD candidate at the University of Córdoba (Spain), enrolled in the Languages and Cultures doctoral programme and employed under the national I+D+i project titled “Resisting the Capitalocene: Narratives of Hope in the 21st Century”. She has completed a BA in English Studies (2016-2020), a Master’s Degree in Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (2020-2021), and a Master’s Degree in Advanced English Studies (Cognitive Linguistics/Literature) and Bilingual Education at the University of Córdoba (2023-2024). In her doctoral thesis, she applies the lenses of ecofeminism, decolonial theory, resistance, and hope to the analysis of female Canadian literary production (poetry, stories, plays, etc.) from the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Marta Aguza Berral holds a degree in English Studies from the University of Córdoba (2020-2025) and in Translation and Interpreting from the same university (2020-2025). She is currently studying for a Master’s Degree in Specialized Translation at the University of Córdoba (2025-2026), which she combines with teaching and research work at the University of Córdoba as an honorary collaborator. She has been awarded the “Beca Semillero de Investigadores” grant, which is aimed at young researchers at the University of Córdoba (2024-2025), as well as the “Beca de Colaboración” (2025-2026), awarded by the Spanish Ministry. She has published some book chapters and an article on English literature and has participated as a speaker at various conferences and seminars on English-language literature and cultural studies. She aims to write her doctoral thesis in the field of postcolonial literature studies and critical discourse analysis, specifically on Palestinian diaspora literature written in English by female authors.