Author: Thorsten Merse

Christiane Lütge is Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), where she holds the Chair of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Her areas of expertise in research and teaching include digital literacy and literary learning, literature in foreign language teaching and learning (entailing digital literatures), as well as global citizenship education and transcultural learning in EFL. Thorsten Merse is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of TEFL at the University of Munich, LMU, Germany. In his research and teaching, he engages with digital education and teachers” digital competences, cultural and literary learning in ELT, as well as citizenship concepts in TEFL. In his Ph D thesis from 2017 titled Other Others, Different Differences: Queer Perspectives on Teaching English as a Foreign Language, he pinpointed a queer-informed renegotiation of inter- and transcultural learning within ELT pedagogy.