Marcella Mariotti is a lecturer in Japanese studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she designs and directs research, teaching and placement projects with Japanese companies in Italy and with Italian companies in Japan. She is involved in international collaborative research projects with the University of Kyoto, Waseda, Kobe, UTS (Sydney) in the fields of E-learning, critical language pedagogy, and translation studies. She also translates from Japanese into Italian, mainly contemporary literature. Since 2014, she has been the chairperson of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe e.V. (AJE) with the role of coordinating international congresses, research and teaching of the Japanese language. Since 2017 she has been the representative delegate of Europe, Center and Middle Est, and Africa block for the Society for the Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language (Nihongo Ky?iku Gakkai). She holds an MA in media sociology from University of Osaka and a Ph.D. in Japanese language education from Ca' Foscari University of Venice.