Professor Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is a Visiting Associate Professor and Casual Lecturer at the University of Malta, where she has been teaching since 2014; including three years as a Research Support Officer with the Centre for Labour Studies. She was a Visiting Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; a guest lecturer at the University of Lincoln; and a guest lecturer and module designer with San Francisco State University. She is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent in Canterbury, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). She was also a researcher on a refugee law project with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

She previously worked for 6 years as an Assistant Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, where she completed her PhD as an AHRC scholar. In addition to this, she obtained an MA in Shakespeare Studies (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), and an MA in Higher Education (University of Kent). She has also taught at CATS College Canterbury, and for the University of the Third Age (Malta).

Her first degrees were in Law and English (UM), followed by the postgraduate Diploma of Notary Public and her Master of Advocacy. She participated in several COSTactions, including the Global Digital Human Rights Network. She was part of a team that received Arts Council funding to make an AR game based on Maltese history. She one of the Programme Committee Chairs for DiGRA2025.

She was an UMASA council member for five years, and a member of the Malta Further and Higher Education Advisory Committee.