Humour between the Sacred and the Profane: New Trends and Research Perspectives

Associate Professor of English Language, Linguistics, and Translation in the Department of Political Science at the University of Napoli Federico II, where she sits on the Doctoral Board in Psychology, Pedagogy, Linguistics, and Gender Studies. She serves on the editorial board of the journals International Journal of English Linguistics and International Journal of Language Studies. She has published a book on advertising language techniques, Nonsense in Advertising (Naples, 2009), and edited collections of essays on the disciplinary and epistemological aspects of English for academic and professional purposes: English for Special Purposes. Reflections and Perspectives (2019); The Specialized Discourses of Well-being and Human Development (2021); Well-being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposals (2024). Her research articles published in peer-reviewed international journals explore academic writing, specialized English, and theolinguistics.

Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law and Theory of Legal Interpretation in the Department of Political Science at the University of Napoli Federico II. A scholar of French institutionalism and legal realism, he is the author of Logique ou réalité? A Reading of François Gény’s Méthode d’interprétation et sources en droit privé positif (Rome, 2004) and The Extrajudicial Limit of the Legal System, Editoriale Scientifica (Naples, 2012). He has translated, introduced, and edited works by Léon Duguit and Émile Durkheim, as well as published several essays on philosophy and the philosophy of law. Finally, he is the editor of the “Minima Socialia” a series published by Marchese Editore, a member of the scientific committee of the international journal Thèmes–Revue de la BPC (Bordeaux), and editor-in-chief of Filosofia dei diritti umani/Philosophy of Human Rights.