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Juan José Varela Tembra holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Murcia), an MA in English Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela), a BA in Religious Sciences (Pontifical University of Salamanca), a BA in Early Childhood Education (Camilo José Cela University) and a BA in TEFL for Primary Education (University of Santiago de Compostela). He was a postgraduate student at Middlebury College (USA) and a Spanish language and culture assistant at the Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Portugal). Since 2002 he has taught English language and literature and Applied Linguistics at the Theological Institute in Santiago de Compostela. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Ljubljana (2009) and at the University of Reading (2008). His research interests lie in the fields of cultural and sexual identity issues in ELT, existential competence, ELT teacher training, and Spanish as a Foreign/Second Language. He has published in Hispania Journal, RLA, the Reading Matrix, Porta Linguarum, International Journal of Learning, MacMillan, Visor, etc. He has been a full-time researcher in teacher training projects of the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.