Valeria Morelli has a Master’s Degree in European and Pan-American Languages and Literatures from the University of Bergamo (Italy), where she studied Italian, English, German and French. She spent study periods in Germany (University of Heidelberg) and in Sydney (UTS). She has been teaching foreign languages and literatures for ten years in various settings and institutions. Valeria also loves to research and translate contemporary German literature. She is currently undertaking a PhD in German Studies at the University of Melbourne.