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Emilia Luukka is a language educator and researcher committed to helping teachers, textbook authors and researchers capture and clarify complex ideas and translate them to meaningful practice and publications. Her research centers around literature in language education, social academic writing and school safety culture. In November 2025, she defended her PhD on value-laden conceptions of literature in English as a Foreign Language Education in Finland at Tampere University. 

Silvana Paola Accardo is a graduate EFL Teacher (both for Kindergarten/PrimarySchool Level and for Secondary School/Tertiary Level) from ENS en Lenguas Vivas“Sofía E. B. de Spangenberg” (CABA), where she works as an English teacher,Comprehensive Sexuality Educator and English Coordinator in secondary school. She currently teaches the courses “Comprehensive Sexual Education” “Creativity in English Language Teaching 1 and 2” and “Children’s & Young Adult Literature”at state-run Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. She holds a Diploma on Comprehensive Sexuality Education at University of Buenos Aires, and she is currently attending a MA course in Children’s and Young Adult Literature at Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM).

For fifteen years,  Olivia Hambrett has been in the classroom teaching English as a foreign language and for the past six years she has been teaching future primary and high school English teachers at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. Alongside practical English lecturing at the EUF, She  has been busy building a Creative Writing course for English language students and looking at how we can build a workshop pedagogy that can be effectively used in the EFL space.

Prior to joining the EUF, she  worked at Kiel's University of Applied Sciences in both the Centre for Languages and Intercultural Studies and the Media Department. There, she not only taught general language courses to students from all faculties, she  also designed and implemented English-language seminars and projects for media students.

Olivia Hambrett completed her  Bachelor of Arts/Psychology in 2006 and continued on to do a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. Not too long after that, she  obtained  Cambridge CELTA and TESOL Cert IV and settled in Germany, where she now lives with her  family. 

Ximena Maceri graduated with a BA in TESOL from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), where she also teaches technical English and British and American literature courses. She is part of the teaching team for the Intercultural Studies courses in the English Teaching programme at the National University of José C. Paz (UNPAZ). She is currently completing her doctoral thesis in Literature at the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo). Her project analyses violence and the construction of memory in two postmodern novels from a gender perspective. Other research projects delve into the works of American author Toni Morrison and black feminisms.