Ways that Diasporic Italy Matters and for Whom

WILLIAM BOELHOWER is visiting professor, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy, and Robert Thomas and Rita Wetta Adams Professor emeritus, Louisiana State University. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books, including most recently Immigrant Autobiography (Bordighera, 2021); Atlantic Studies: Prospects and Challenges (LSU Press, 2019); editor, Introduction, New Orleans in the Atlantic World. Between Land and Sea (Routledge, 2010). His most recent articles include “Narrating and Archiving Social Movements and Migration,” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (forthcoming, 2022); “Conflict,” in A Cultural History of the Sea, the Nineteenth Century, edited by Margaret Cohen (Bloomsbury, 2019, 105–30); and “Three Early Modern Genres: A Microhistorical Approach to ‘World Literature,’” in “Global Currents” ed. Sorcha Gunne and Neil Lazarus, special issue, Atlantic Studies 16, no. 1 (March 2019): 21–37. He cofounded the scholarly journal Atlantic Studies and coedited it from 2004 to 2014.