BIO PROFILE

Andrea Carosso is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Department of International Languages and Literatures, where he is director of the post-graduate program in English and American Studies and co-delegate for studies abroad. He is former director of the “Piero Bairati” Center for American Studies at the University of Torino.

His latest (coedited) work is is "Coastlines, Oceans and Rivers of North America: Encounters and Ecocrises" (Iperstoria 19, summer 2022). Recently he co-edited the following books and special journal issues: Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives (Transcript, 2020), "Family and the Media" (IJMCP, 2019) and "Arabi e musulmani d'America" (Acoma, 2018). He is the author of Cold War Narratives. American Culture in the 1950s (2012), Urban Cultures in the United States (2010), Invito alla lettura di Vladimir Nabokov (1999),  T.S. Eliot e i miti del moderno. Prassi, teoria e ideologia negli scritti critici e filosofici (1995) and Decostruzione e\è America. Un reader critico (editor, 1994). His current research focuses on representations of the backlash on ethnic (especially Arab and Muslim) communities in the US after 9/11, family and reproductive policies in early Cold War America, and the transatlantic circulation of the blues. Forthcoming is a book-length study on the US South-West. [see “main publications” link for details]

Carosso has translated and co-translated books by Cormac McCarthy, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Pavel, Northrop Frye, and Graham Swift, among others. He is Editor of RSAJournal, board member of EAAS (European Association for American Studies), and member of the editorial board of Altreitalie. International Journal of Studies on Italian Migrations in the World and of JamIt, Journal of American Studies in Italy.