Vander Tavares is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Inland Norway. His research interests include critical second language education, teacher education, and the internationalization of higher and language education. He is the editor of Social Justice through Pedagogies of Multiliteracies (2024, Routledge).

Silvia Melo-Pfeifer is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg. She carries out research on pluralistic approaches to language learning and teaching, with particular emphasis on intercomprehension across languages of the same linguistic family, heritage language education, and foreign language teacher education.