The American Studies Association of Italy (AISNA - Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani) – that fosters exchange and debate in the fields of North American literature and language, history, politics, society, cinema - is in very good hands.

In fact, Elisabetta Vezzosi, full professor of North American history at the University of Trieste (capital of the autonomous region of Italy, Friuli-Venezia Giulia), has dissected far and wide the phenomenon of immigration, that certainly shaped the past of the United States, and, in the era of globalization and free mobility, shall keep informing its present and its future.