After graduating from her BA with honours, Marina completed her Master's studies with a focus on Scandinavian borrowings in English. Throughout her career as a PhD student she has continued to show particular interest in Anglo-Scandinavian language contact in Middle English.

Most recently, Marina is studying dialectal variation and scribal choice in the nine extant manuscripts of the 14th century Middle English poem Siege of Jerusalem, supervised by Prof. Dr. Olga Timofeeva (University of Zürich) and Dr. Sara Pons-Sanz (Cardiff University).

Marina also works as a teaching and research assistant to Prof. Dr. Olga Timofeeva and teaches History of the English Language, with a special focus on Old and Middle English.

“Influence and remnants of Old Norse in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS). University of Barcelona. January 25-27, 2017.

“Parallelisms between Hávamál and The Canterbury Tales: The Nordic Noble Virtue of Hospitality in Chaucer’s Franklin.” The 29th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). University of Málaga. September 21-23, 2017.

“‘Fer in the north’: Old Norse in “The Reeve’s Tale".” The 30th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). University of Oviedo. September 27-29, 2018.

“Christian morality in “The Parson’s Tale” and Old Norse ethics in the Sigdrífumál: A comparative Study.” The 42nd Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). University of Cordoba. November 7-9, 2018.

“Dialectal Variation in the Lexis of Middle English: Norse-Derived Terms in Havelok the Dane and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” Research Seminar Series of the Centre for Language and Communication Research. Cardiff University. April 21, 2021.

“Norse-Derived Terms in Havelok the Dane and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” The 11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN). University of Murcia. June 1-3, 2022.

“The Gersum Typology applied to the Middle English Lexis of Havelok the Dane and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.”The 32nd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. University of Logroño (SELIM). September 14-16, 2022.

“Etymological Analysis of Norse Loanwords in The Canterbury Tales and Havelok the Dane.” The 45th Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). University of Extremadura. November 16-18, 2022.

“Identifying Norse in Havelok the Dane: The lexical domain of MIND.” The 7th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourseand Interaction (NORDISCO). University of Tampere. November 15-17, 2023.

“Norse loanwords and dialectal variation in the Middle English lexis of Siege of Jerusalem.” Jungen Zürcher Mediävistik Symposium. University of Zürich. November 23, 2023.

"Lexical replacements of Norse-derived terms in the southern manuscripts of Siege of Jerusalem." International Conference of Middle English (ICOME). University of Malaga. May 8-10, 2024.

"Scandinavian impact in Siege of Jerusalem: Lexical replacement of Norse-derived terms in the nine extant manuscripts." The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). University of Lausanne. August 26-30, 2024. 

"Norse-derived lexicon in the nine extant manuscripts of Siege of Jerusalem." The 34th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). University of Granada. September 18-20, 2024.

Other conference presentations: 

-The 11th Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North. “New Beginnings." University of Iceland. April 7–9, 2022:
-The 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies! University of Michigan, May 11-13, 2022.
-The 6th International Conference on Linguistics And Literature. University of Cantabria 27-28, 2022.
-The 7th Colloque Bisannuel de la Diachronie de l’Anglais (CBDA). The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, François Rabelais University and University of Picardie Jules Verne. January 20, 2023.
-The 33rd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). University of Murcia. September 13-15, 2023.

Chaired sessions:

The 22nd International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL). University of Sheffield. July 3-6, 2023.