Gender issues: Linguistic Insights

Eleonora Federici (M.A., PhD University of Hull, UK) is an associate professor of English Language and Translation Studies at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Her main areas of research are LSP translation (especially the languages of tourism and advertising), Gender/Feminist Studies and English varieties. She has published widely on specialized translation, translation and gender, postcolonial translation, cultural representations in media, CDA in tourism and advertising texts. With José Santaemilia she is organizing each year since 2016 the Valencia/Naples Colloquium on Gender and Translation that gathers together scholars on this field. Stefania M. Maci (PhD, Lancaster University, UK) is a full professor of English Language and pro vice-chancellor (Education) at the University of Bergamo. She is the director of CERLIS (Research Centre on Specialized Languages) and serves on the Board of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica). She is also a member of CLAVIER (The Corpus and Language Variation in English Research Group), BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics), AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics), AELINCO (Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics) and ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)