Shaul Bassi

Shaul Bassi is Professor of English, Postcolonial studies and Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His publications include Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, ‘Race’, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), The Merchant in Venice. Shakespeare in the Ghetto (co-edited with Carol Chillington Rutter, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2021) and Venice and the Anthropocene. An Ecocritical Guide (co-edited with Cristina Baldacci, Lucio De Capitani, Daniel Pietro Omodeo, Wetlands 2023). He is the co-founder and former director of Venice international literary festival Incroci di civiltà /Crossings of Civilizations.