Girolamo Tessuto
University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' Italy
Girolamo Tessuto is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Law Department of University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli where he is also Director of the Centre for Research in Language and Law (CRILL). He also teaches in various Departments of Medicine of the same university and the Law Department of University of Naples ‘Federico II’. Besides memberships of several academic and professional associations, he is a member of the Clavier Research Centre (Milan), an editorial board member of various international English linguistics journals, and chief editor of the Legal Discourse and Communication peer-review international series. His research interests focus primarily on (critical) discourse analysis of academic, professional and institutional genres in legal, medical and healthcare contexts, and English for Specific Purposes. His published academic work comprises research monographs and several publications appearing as research papers, book chapters, co-edited volumes, and book reviews.