María Goicoechea was born in Santander, Spain, the 20th of October, 1971. She studied English Philology at the University Complutense of Madrid. She has studied at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK , and at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Intercultural Communication. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled The Reader in Cyberspace: A Literary Ethnography of Cyberculture (2004). Her research interests include literary theory, ethnography, and cyberculture.
Currently, she is a teacher of the English Department at the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM). Prof. Goicoechea is a member of LEETHI Research Group (UCM), and of HERMENEIA (Universitat de Barcelona), two interdisciplinary research groups dedicated to the study of literature and computers.