Maria Pujol-Valls currently works at the Department of Education, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Her research interests include children’s books, crossover literature, reading in English as a second or third language, contemporary Catalan authors and their work for children, historical memory in literature, translating children's books and communicative skills in initial teachers training. She is a member of the research group SEI (Sustainibility and Integral Education) from the Faculty of Education at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. She is also researching with Nature in Children’s Literature and Culture (NaChiLitCul) from the Western Norway University of Applied Linguistics.