William Boelhower

William Boelhower is Adams Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, USA, and currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Italy.
He is theco-founder and co-editor of the Routledge journal Atlantic Studies; he inaugurated the interdisciplinary center for Atlantic Studies at Louisiana State University, and is one of the founding members of MESEA (Multi-ethnic Studies, Europe and America), an international association for the comparative study of multi-culturalism in in European societies. His books include Atlantic Studies, Prospects and Challenges; New Orleans in the Atlantic World. Between Land and Sea: Through a glass darkly, ethnic semiosis in American Literature; Immigrant Autobiography in the United States: Five Versions of the Italian American Experience (2021). Among his many translations are the cultural writings of Antonio Gramsci and Lucien Goldman’s essays on the sociology of literature.