English for Medicine

Girolamo Tessuto is Professor of English, Linguistics and Translation at the Department of Law, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. He teaches English in various Departments of Medicine of the same University as well as the Department of Law, University of Naples ‘Federico II’. He is Director of Centre for Research in Language and Law (CRILL), University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and scientific coordinator of I-LanD Research Centre (Naples). Besides memberships of several academic and professional associations, he is 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 on text and (critical) discourse analysis of academic, professional and institutional genres in legal, medical and healthcare contexts, English for Specific Purposes, English for Academic Purposes, and specialised translation. His published academic work comprises research and teaching monographs and several publications appearing as research articles, book chapters, co-edited volumes, and book reviews. His endorsements include the volume The Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation (2015, with Dennis Kurzon, Jean-Claude Gémar, Susan Šarcevic and Lawrence M. Solan) by Le Cheng, King Kui Sin and Anne Wagner, and the book Critical Genre Analysis (2017) by Vijay K. Bhatia.