William Anselmi is an Italian-born academic and writer. 

Dr. Anselmi received an MA from Carleton University in 1983 and a PhD in Comparative Literature in 1992 from l'Université de Montréal. He then returned to Carleton University as an assistant professor, before going to the University of Alberta, serving first as Associate Professor and then Professor of Italian and Italian-Canadian Literature and Culture. He is currently a managing editor for Imaginations, an online journal focusing on cross-cultural image studies.