Author: Rosanna Masiola

Rosanna Masiola is professor of English Language and Translation at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy.  She holds degrees from the Universities of Venice and Trieste, where she also taught.Masiola worked as in-house translator with Generali, Trieste.  She has published twenty books: Questioni Traduttive (1988), Pianeti Proibiti. Descrizione Traduzione Intertesti (1997), La traduzione è servita! Food for Thought (2004), Il Fascino nel Tradurre (2009). Masiola co-authored with Renato Tomei, West of Eden: Botanical Discourse Contact Languages and Translation (2009). Introduction is co-authored; Masiola has written chapter 2 of this book Renato Tomei is assistant professor of English Language and Translation at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy. He holds a joint Ph D in linguistics from the University of Addis Ababa and the University of the West Indies where he is engaged in post-doctoral research. He teaches legal English at postgraduate and doctoral level. His recent publications include Jamaican English in Ethiopia: From Africa to Africa (2014). He is the founder of Youths of the World (NGO) and is committed to cultural exchanges with Africa and the Caribbean. Introduction is co-authored; Tomei has written chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this book.