Storytelling as a Cultural Practice

Maria Cristina Gatti (PhD) is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), where she also directs the Center for Academic Writing. She is an advisory member of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID). As an applied linguist, she is currently leading research programmes on narrative in multilingual and multicultural settings, the role of English in multilingual education and professional environments, and language variation in transnational communication contexts. Jeanette Hoffmann (PhD) is Full Professor of German Literature Didactics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), where she also directs the EduSpace Children’sLiteratureLab. Previously, she was Full Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden and worked at the University of Education Upper Austria and the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests are graphic storytelling, reading engagement, literary learning and language education in multilingual and intercultural contexts.