Eka Listianing Rahayu is a lecturer and researcher at Politeknik Negeri Malang, East Java.

She is pursuing a PhD in education—language, literacy, and technology (LLT) at Washington State University—Pullman. Her research will examine teachers’ understandings of intercultural communicative competence in their communicative classroom practices.

She earned her bachelor’s in English teaching from Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang and her master’s in applied linguistics from the University of Queensland with an Australian Award Scholarship.