Laura Mercé

PhD candidate

Doctoral Programme in Languages, Literatures, Cultures and their Applications

Department of English and German Philology

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8038-423X

Education / Academic qualification

  • – BA in English Studies, Universitat de València.
  • – MA in Secondary Education Teaching (English), Universitat de València.
  • – MA in Advanced English Studies, Universitat de València.

Research interests

I am interested in the interplay between discourse and gender-based violence.

Although my PhD thesis is still in the works, I have published on this topic from different angles:

– The discursive representation of gender-based domestic violence.

– Anti-feminism in education.

I have also published on the discourse of online grooming (with Dr Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Dr Carmen Pérez-Sabater and Dr Sergio Maruenda) and on critical pedagogy (with Dr Villacañas de Castro).

Book chapters

Moreno-Serrano, L. (2021). The discursive representation of domestic violence in Big Little Lies: A feminist critical discourse analysis of the cycle of violence. In C. Gregori-Signes, M. Fuster-Márquez & S. Maruenda-Bataller, Discourse, dialogue and characterisation in TV series (pp. 141-157). Comares. Retrieved 10 August 2022, from https://www.comares.com/libro/discoursedialogue-and-characterisation-in-tvseries_136666/.

Journal articles

Lorenzo-Dus, N., Moreno-Serrano, L., Pérez-Sabater, C., & Maruenda-Bataller, S. (2021). Ciberacoso sexual a menores (Online Grooming) y pandemia: Actuar con el lenguaje ante la vulneración de los derechos de la infancia. Signo y Seña, 40, 166-187.

Villacañas de Castro, Luis S., Moreno-Serrano, L. M., & Claudia Giner. 2020. Museum Education, Cultural Sustainability and English Language Teaching in Spain. Pedagogy, Culture & Society.

Encyclopedia entries

Mercé, L. (Forthcoming). Anti-feminist backlash in education. In The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.

Book reviews

Mercé, L. (2022). Book review: Camilla Vásquez, Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis. Discourse Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221132685.