Miss Man? Languaging Gendered Bodies

Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy. His research interests and publications include multimodal critical discourse analysis, humour, masculinity studies, and audio-visual translation. He is the Director of the inter-university research centre, I-LanD, investigating identity and diversity in discourse. His recent publications include Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture (with Paul Baker, 2018); The Discursive Construction of Organised Crime in the Irish Media (2017); and Humosexually Speaking: Laughter and the Intersections of Gender (with Delia Chiaro, 2016).Oriana Palusci is Full Professor of English at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy. She has published extensively on women novelists, gender studies, travel writing, utopian literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, Englishes, and Canadian culture and literature. Her recent publications include Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story (2017), Green Canada (2016), and Translating East and West (with Katherine E. Russo, 2016).