Marta Villalba is an associate lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands where she teaches 18th-century English literature, Children's literature in English and Business English. She holds an international PhD from the University of the Balearic Islands, passed 'cum laude' (2018). She has a BA degree in Law (1986) and in English Philology (2013) and an MA degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of the Balearic Islands and Bangor University (2014). She developed her career as a lawyer in EY (former EY partner). She is a member of the research group Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literatures. She conducts her research on Victorian and postcolonial literatures and their intersections with their legislative context and classical reception, encompassing feminist jurisprudence criticism, cultural studies and postcolonialism. She has participated in several conferences and published articles in specialised journals.