Esa Christine Hartmann is Associate Professor of German and Bilingual Education (French – German) at the University of Strasbourg (France), and associated member of the research group Multilingualism, Translation, Creation of the ITEM/ CNRS (France), as well as member of the research group European Multilingualism (GEPE) of the research unit LiLPa of the University of Strasbourg (France). Her research interests include bilingual and multilingual education, multilingual writing, translation studies, genetic criticism and stylistics.