Sämi Ludwig is a professor at the UHA Mulhouse in the Alsace, France. He received his education at the University of Berne, Switzerland, and has published in REAL, AmerikaStudien, Mosaic, the Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison, The African American Review, The Journal for Asian American Studies, and the Revue française des études américaines. In his Ph.D. thesis on intercultural communication in Maxine Hong Kingston and Ishmael Reed, called Concrete Language (Peter Lang 1996, rpt. 2016), he outlined a theory of metaphorically tracing intention constructions in the discourse of the other. His second book is on the convergences of American realism and pragmatist philosophy. Cognitive Realism: The Pragmatist Paradigm in American Literary Realism was published by the University of Wisconsin Press (2002). Together with Rocío Davis (Pamplona) he edits Contributions to Asian American Literary Studies, the only European book series on Asian American cultural studies (LIT, Germany). His third monograph, a study of Major Robert Rogers' play Ponteach (1766), called Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit was also published with Wisconsin (2020). In addition to intercultural issues and questions of cognitive and pragmatist approaches to literature, he is also interested in the big picture of literary history, in colonial American culture, and occasionally even tries to understand poetry. Sämi is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.