Valentina Adami is a tenure-track researcher of English language (RTD-B) at the University of Bergamo since September 2021. She was a Visiting Researcher at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (July-September 2011), and Visiting Academic at the University of Queensland, Brisbane (July-August 2023). She is in charge of international relations for the degree in Primary Teacher Education, as well as a member of the scientific committee of the University's language centre (CCL). Her fields of research include ecolinguistics and ecocriticism; English language teaching (ELT) and teacher education; environmental education and ELT; language, literature and trauma; the digital humanities.