Girolamo Tessuto

Girolamo Tessuto is Professor of English Language, Linguistics and Translation at the Department of Law,
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, where he is also Director of the Centre for Research in Language and Law (CRILL) and delegated by the Rector for International and Mobility Affairs. He also teaches in the Department of Law, University of Naples Federico II, and the Department of Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Besides memberships of several academic and professional associations, including the CLAVIER research unit (Milan), he is editorial board member of various international English linguistics journals and chief editor of the Legal Discourse and Communication international series (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK). His
research interests lie in text and (critical) discourse analysis of academic, professional and institutional genres in
legal contexts, translation/interpreting, ESP, combining corpus linguistics. His areas of interests extend to language and discourse of healthcare and medicine, including analyses of different Web-mediated genres. His
published academic work comprises research monographs and several publications appearing as research
papers, book chapters, co-edited volumes and book reviews and endorsements.