Shaul BASSI

Position
Full Professor
Roles
Member of the Centre's Scientific Committee "THE NEW INSTITUTE: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)"
Telephone
041 234 7872
E-mail
bassi@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Letteratura inglese [ANGL-01/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/bassi (personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Palazzo Cosulich
Office
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)
Where: Ca' Bottacin
Research Institute
Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage
Research Institute
Research Institute for International Studies

Shaul Bassi is full professor of English literature and Environmental Humanities. He has taught at Ca' Foscari University of Venice since 2000. His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, environmental humanities, postcolonial theory and literature (India and Africa), and Jewish studies. He has taught at Wake Forest University-Venice, Venice International University, Harvard-Ca'Foscari summer school and has been visiting professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the co-founder and former director of the international literary festival Incroci di civiltà and the former director of the International Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca'Foscari, which established the Master's Degree in Environmental Humanities.