Jeanette Hoffmann is Full Professor for Didactics of German Literature at Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. From 2013-2019 she was Full Professor for Primary Education/German at Technische Universität Dresden and before that she worked at Free University of Berlin and at University of Education Upper Austria. Her work and research focus on graphic storytelling, literary learning, and language education, children’s and youth literature and its didactics, reading and media socialization, intercultural learning and multilingualism as well as empirical research on reader response, teaching and professionalism. She is the author of the award-winning study Literarische Gespräche im interkulturellen Kontext [Discussions about Literature in Intercultural Contexts] (2011).