Full Professor of English Language, Translation and Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Studies of Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
Former director of CERLIS (Research Centre on Specialized Languages)
Former coordinator of the MA in Text Sciences at the University of Bergamo
I am currently involved in national and international research projects on academic English and ESP, with particular regard to medical and tourism discourse (metadiscursive and argumentative strategies of traditional and new forms of communication, e-texts included) with a CL approach.