Giuliana Fenech is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University of Malta, specializing in work involving children's and young adult literature and citizenship, agency, creative protest, and activism. She is currently the principal investigator of an Erasmus K2 HED project called Seen and Heard: Young Adult Voices and Freedom of Expression. Additionally, Fenech runs a storytelling organization, Lignin Stories, which works with diverse groups of children and youth in Malta and across Europe.