María Carbonell Saiz, B.A. in Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation, M.A. in Language and Literature Research from the University of Valencia. Since 2024 she is a PhD student at the University of Valencia and a member of the Inter-university Institute for Modern and Applied Languages (IULMA). Her research field is conversation analysis and she has conducted her first studies on discourse markers and epistemicity in interaction.

Daniel López Fernández is a PhD candidate in the "Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and their Applications" program. He graduated in Modern Languages ​​and their Literatures (2020) with a Major in German Philology and a Minor in East Asian Studies. He subsequently obtained a Master's Degree in Language ​​and Literature Research (2021). He currently works at the University of Valencia as a predoc researcher thanks to the grants for the hiring of predoctoral research staff from the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana and the European Social Fund (CIACIF/2021/110). Since 2021 he has been part of the RIALE  (Intercultural Relations Germany-Spain) research group. His research focuses on the representation of the working world in contemporary German novels, as well as on other aspects of 20th-century German-language literature, although he has also developed research in other fields such as posthumanism, environmental humanities and animal studies..

Anesa Muslimovic Ortega holds a B.A. in English Studies (2022) and an M.A. in Creative and Humanistic Translation (2023) at the Universitat de València, where she received the End-of-Degree Extraordinary Award for both disciplines. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Language, Literatures, Cultures, and its Applications Doctoral program, with a thesis supervised by Professor Dr. Anna M. Brígido-Corachán. 

Since December 2024, she has been working in the Department of English and German after being awarded a grant for the training of pre-doctoral research staff (Invest Formació Atracció de Talent — UV). 

Additionally, she is a member of the LENA research group (North American Ethnic Minority Literature in a Global Context), where her research focuses on trauma, identity fragmentation, and reconstruction in the literary works of the Bosnian-American diaspora. Specifically, she investigates the experiences of the first generation of exiled Bosnian Muslims who relocated to the US due to the Bosnia War (1992-1995). Her research interests also include the literary representation of queer identities, Gender Studies, and translation, particularly focusing on the translation of sapphic identities in contexts of censorship.

Cristina María Tello-Barbé holds a BA in English Studies (2020) awarded by the University of Valencia. There, she also completed two MAs, namely a master’s degree in Education (2021) and a master’s degree in Advanced English Studies (2022). Thanks to the FPU predoctoral contract funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, she has been part of the Research Staff in Training at the Department of English and German Philology since 2024. She is also a member of the CORPLING research group (Corpus Linguistics: Developments and Applications) and the Interuniversity Institute of Modern Applied Languages of the Valencian Community. Her primary research area corresponds with Corpus-Assisted (Critical) Discourse Studies. Nevertheless, her research interests also include the fields of gender studies and fat studies.