AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani) is the American Studies Association of Italy, founded in 1973. It brings together scholars, students, and education professionals inside and outside academia interested in the history, literature and culture of the United States.

AISNA publishes an open access journal, RSAJournal, established in 1981 as RSA (Rivista di Studi Americani). Since 2006 the journal has accepted contributions from both members and non-members of the association.

AISNA organizes a biennial International Conference, hosted each time at one of its participating universities in Italy.

AISNA co-organizes, with the Centro di Studi Americani in Rome, a yearly Interdisciplinary Seminar of American Studies, established in 2005. The seminar is addressed to graduate and doctoral students from all over Italy and aims to provide opportunities for exchange and debate with leading national and international scholars. AISNA and Centro di Studi Americani have also jointly organized a number of Seminars on “State of the Art in American Studies,” during which prominent American Studies scholars from the United States have lectured to and debated with Italian graduate students and younger faculty.

In 2009 AISNA launched its Graduate Forum, a network of early career scholars in American Studies affiliated with the association.

AISNA is a member of EAAS, the European Association of American Studies. Its archives are held at the Centro di Studi Americani in Rome.

For a more detailed account of AISNA’s history and its activities over time, see the essays gathered in the Forum section of RSAJournal no. 35: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/rsajournal/issue/view/801