is Professor of German at the University of Joensuu in Finland, having previously taught at the universities of Bonn, Leicester (UK) and Waikato (NZ). His research interests are in the fields of German linguistics and phonetics, language teaching and testing, computer-assisted language learning, and intercultural communication.

is Professor for Postcolonial Studies, Pathway Leader in German and Research Co-ordinator at the Department of Languages and Intercultural Communication, Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He has published extensively on images of the Self and the Other in contemporary literature and on film as well as on different aspects of Language Learning and Teaching (especially on Business German and CALL). He is (with R. Tenberg) author of the BBC German Grammar. His research interests are in the field of discourse analysis and intercultural studies with particular reference to historiographical and fictional discourses.

is Professor of Educational Media at the University of Education at Heidelberg (Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg). Her current research interests lie in the fields of Educational Media (especially in Computer Supported Cooperative Learning and in the use of Social Software) and in Language Learning and Teaching (especially in CALL, learning strategies, learner and teacher "autonomy" and teacher education).

Since September 2001 GFL has been collaborating with The Association for Modern German Studies (AMGS). Dr. Klaus-Dieter Rossade represents AMGS on the editorial board.

is a Lecturer in German in the Department of Languages at the Open University in Milton Keynes. His research focusses on the history scholarship and Higher Education, in particular German studies, intellectuals in totalitarian systems and questions relating to memory and 'dealing with the past'. He has also presented and published in the area of technology enhanced langugage learning (TELL) and is currently involved in research projects on language learning at primary level. His book on the German scholar and intellectual Benno von Wiese ('"Dem Zeitgeist erlegen?" Benno von Wiese und der Nationalsozialismus') will be published shortly. Klaus-Dieter Rossade was AMGS convenor until summer 2007.

is the Associate Director of INSPIRE, Anglia Ruskin University's Learning and Teaching Centre, Cambridge and Chelmsford and leads in flexible and distributed learning. His main activities are in policy issues around flexible and distributed learning, staff development and projects. His current research interests lie in the field of learning and teaching with particular focus on learning technology.

currently works as Strategic Marketing Manager at Proquest UK. She has a MA in Scientific and Technical Translation from the University of Granada, and a BA Honours in English and German from Anglia Ruskin University - Cambridge. She has particular interests in the development of new tools for academic libraries and in computer-aided translation.