Armela Panajoti is an associate professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Vlora, Albania. She has been working at UV ever since she graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Vlora, Albania with a Gold Medal (award given to an Albanian student whose grades are all ten – highest Albanian grade). She completed her doctoral thesis on Conrad at the Department of English, University of Tirana, Albania. She is currently the Chair of the Albanian Society for the Study of English (ASSE), general editor of its journal, in esse: English Studies in Albania, a member of the Board of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). Dr Panajoti has published extensively in a number of peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and has spoken at, and organised, many international conferences. Her research interests are mainly concentrated on literary and cultural studies as most of her teaching and research activities have revolved around them. She has particularly dealt with matters which explore the relation between language and literature, language and culture, intercultural competence and communication.