Stefania M. Maci is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies. She is currently involved in national and international research projects on academic English and legal discourse genres, with particular regard to: - Tourism discourse (Digital and promotional communication, and specialised traits in English for tourism). - Medical Discourse (Medical poster presentations; Metadiscursive and argumentative strategies of medical English across genres and cultures; evidentiality). • Legal Language (Italian and English arbitral awards; Witness hearings; Plain language movement). Recent publications include: the monographs Translating Tourism (2025) The Routledeg Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation (2024); The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication (2022); English Tourism Discourse (2020). AFFILIATION Ca' Foscari Università di Venezia Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati. Palazzo Cosulich - Dorsoduro 1405 30123 Venezia, Italy Ph: and Fax: ++39 (0)35 2052-746 e-mail: stefania.maci@unibg.it Skype: stefania maci orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-5665 RESEARCH INTERESTS English for Specific Purposes, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics, Multimodality and socio-semiotics, Tourism discourse, Medical discourse, Academic discourse,