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

Publications

Year Type Publication
Year Type Publication
2024 Scientific monograph or treatise Paul Kaplan; Shaul Bassi African Venice. A Guide to Art, Culture and People , Venezia, wetlands (ISBN 979-12-80930-27-9)
- ARCA card: 10278/5063981
2024 Book Article shaul bassi "None of that shit matters to the Swedes": Venice, Bangladesh, and the Postcolonial Anthropocene , Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter, vol. 25, pp. 105-121 (ISBN 978-3-11-100571-3; 978-3-11-100617-8)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5063985
2024 Book Article Shaul Bassi Africa in Venice. The Present in Paul Kaplan; Shaul Bassi, African Venice. A Guide to Art, Culture and People, Venezia, wetlands, pp. 37-46 (ISBN 979-12-80930-27-9)
- ARCA card: 10278/5063961
2023 Scientific monograph or treatise Bassi, Shaul Shakespeare: guida al Mercante di Venezia , Roma, Carocci, vol. 674 (ISBN 978-88-290-2007-2)
- ARCA card: 10278/5034941
2023 Journal Article de capitani lucio; bassi shaul Fragile symbioses: introducing new routes for postcolonial ecocriticism in FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH, vol. 13, pp. 4-9 (ISSN 2531-4130)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5045825
2023 Book Article shaul bassi Minds Tossing on the Ocean: Venice, the Sea, and the Crisis of Imagination , Re-envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean, Salt Lake City, The University of Utah Press, pp. 61-74 (ISBN 9781647691004; 9781647691011; 9781647691028)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5046016
2023 Curatorship (a cura di) De Capitani lucio; Shaul bassi From the European South. A transdisciplinary journal of postcolonial humanities 13 (2023) - Special Focus: Exploring New Routes in the Postcolonial Environmental Humanities in FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - Università di Padova, vol. 13 (ISSN 2531-4130)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5045822
2023 Curatorship (a cura di) Bolette B. Blaagaard, Sabrina Marchetti, Sandra Ponzanesi, Shaul Bassi Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe , Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari (ISBN 978-88-6969-677-0)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5013402
2022 Scientific monograph or treatise bassi, shaul Turbo Road. Il Kenya, i suoi scrittori, un bambino , Milano, Meltemi editore, vol. 58 (ISBN 9788855196772)
- ARCA card: 10278/5034924
2022 Journal Article Bassi, S Angry Jewish Resistance. Interpreting Shylock's Rage in SHAKESPEARE, vol. 18, pp. 8-23 (ISSN 1745-0926)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5002078
2022 Review in magazine Bassi, S Territories and Trajectories. Cultures in Circulation in MIGRATION STUDIES, vol. 10, pp. 330-332 (ISSN 2049-5838)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5034925
2022 Prefazione/Postfazione BASSI, SHAUL Afterword: The Ghetto After the Plague , The Venice Ghetto: A Memory Space that Travels, Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 228-240 (ISBN 9781613768907; 9781625346148)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5002152
2022 Curatorship (a cura di) shaul bassi; Emma Mason Textus. English studies in Italy (2021). Vol. 34/3: Environmental humanities and english literary studies : facing the crisis of the immagination in TEXTUS, Roma, Carocci editore Spa, vol. 34 (ISBN 9788829008988) (ISSN 1824-3967)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5002154
2022 Curatorship (a cura di) Baldacci, Cristina; Bassi, Shaul; Capitani, Lucio; Omodeo, Pietro Daniel Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide , Venice, Wetlands (ISBN 979-1280930088)
- ARCA card: 10278/5011626
2021 Journal Article Bassi, Shaul The Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari: Old and New in LAGOONSCAPES, vol. 1, pp. 21-25 (ISSN 2785-2709)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5005240
2021 Book Article shaul bassi The Merchant of Venice: The State of the Art , The Merchant of Venice. A Critical Reader, Londra, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 85-104 (ISBN 9781350082298; 9781350082304)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3744525
2021 Book Article Bassi, Shaul “Shylock is Dead”: Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto , The Merchant in Venice. Shakespeare in the Ghetto, Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, vol. 25, pp. 25-39 (ISBN 978-88-6969-503-2; 978-88-6969-504-9) (ISSN 2610-9123)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5005206
2021 Curatorship (a cura di) bassi, shaul Il cortile del mondo , Firenze, Casa Editrice Giuntina srl (ISBN 9788880578857)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5002151
2021 Curatorship (a cura di) Shaul Bassi; Carol Chillington Rutter The Merchant in Venice. Shakespeare in the Ghetto , Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari (ISBN 9781350153332; 978-88-6969-503-2) (ISSN 2610-993X)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3744521
2020 Journal Article Bassi, Shaul; Scego, Igiaba Othello and the Ambivalences of Italian Blackface in MULTICULTURAL SHAKESPEARE, vol. 22, pp. 67-85 (ISSN 2300-7605)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3744767
2020 Book Article shaul bassi Jessica, Sarra, Ruth: Jewish Women in Shakespeare’s Venice , The Merchant of Venice. The State of Play, Londra, Arden Shakespeare - Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 173-193 (ISBN 978-1-3501-1022-9; 978-1-3501-1024-3; 978-1-3501-1023-6)
- ARCA card: 10278/3744524
2019 Journal Article shaul bassi Africa, Venice, and the posthuman in FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH, vol. 4, pp. 19-29 (ISSN 2531-4130)
- ARCA card: 10278/3722063
2018 Book Article Bassi, Shaul Gli studi postcoloniali a Ca’ Foscari , Le lingue occidentali nei 150 anni di storia di Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, vol. 7, pp. 293-301 (ISBN 978-88-6969-263-5; 978-88-6969-262-8) (ISSN 2610-8917)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3744766
2018 Book Article Bassi, Shaul Shylock in the Thinking Machine. Civic Shakespeare and the Future of Venice , New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity, London, THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE (Bloomsbury Publishing), pp. 161-177 (ISBN 978-1-474-24455-8; 978-1-474-24457-2; 978-1-474-24456-5)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3696474
2017 Journal Article bassi, shaul Le avventure di Hadassah Gross: un personaggio radicale della scena statunitense in LA RASSEGNA MENSILE DI ISRAEL, vol. 83, pp. 111-128 (ISSN 0033-9792)
- ARCA card: 10278/3699423
2017 Book Article Bassi, Shaul The Merchant *in* Venice: Re-creating Shakespeare in the Ghetto , Creating Shakespeare (Shakespeare Survey 70), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, vol. 70, pp. 67-78 (ISBN 9781108277648)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3696473
2016 Scientific monograph or treatise Bassi, Shaul Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, "Race," Politics , New York, Palgrave Macmillan US (ISBN 978-1-137-50285-8; 978-1-137-49170-1)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3672290
2016 Journal Article Bassi, Shaul I pericoli della razza: riflessioni italiane a partire da Paul Gilroy in FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH, vol. 1, pp. 75-82 (ISSN 2531-4130)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3690815
2016 Book Article Bassi, Shaul Moor and Medusa: In the Footsteps of Othello , ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings, Roma, Postcart, pp. 149-155 (ISBN 8898391471)
- ARCA card: 10278/3690820
2016 Book Article Bassi, Shaul New directions: The Names of the Rose: Romeo and Juliet in Italy , Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader, London, Bloomsbury, pp. 177-198 (ISBN 978-1-4742-1636-4; 978-1-4725-8926-2; 978-1-4742-1637-1; 978-1-4742-1638-8)
- ARCA card: 10278/3672365
2016 Book Article Bassi, Shaul The Tragedies in Italy , The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 691-705 (ISBN 9780198724193)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3690817
2015 Journal Article Bassi, Shaul Re-imagining the Ghetto: Introduction to the Forum "The Ghetto as a Victorian Text" in PARTIAL ANSWERS, vol. 13, pp. 73-78 (ISSN 1565-3668)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3690816
2015 Book Article Bassi, Shaul Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie , The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 367-377 (ISBN 9780748646159; 9780748646166; 9781474404488)
- ARCA card: 10278/3672310
2013 Article in Conference Proceedings S. Bassi Hamlet in Venice. An Anthropology of Italian Theory , Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, Newark, DE, University of Delaware Press, pp. 270-278, Convegno: Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, 17-22 July 2011 (ISBN 9781611494600)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/43897
2012 Book Article S. BASSI 'Fixed Figures': gli altri mori di Venezia , a garland of true plain words. saggi in onore di Paola Bottalla, Padova, Unipress, pp. 459-480 (ISBN 9788880983057)
- ARCA card: 10278/37173
2011 Scientific monograph or treatise S. BASSI Essere qualcun altro. Ebrei postmoderni e postcoloniali , Venezia, Cafoscarina, vol. 1, pp. 1-304 (ISBN 9788875432980)
- ARCA card: 10278/31728
2011 Journal Article BASSI S. Guglielmo and Benito: Shakespeare, Nation, and Ethnicity in Fascist Italy in SHAKESPEARE YEARBOOK, vol. 11, pp. 199-216 (ISSN 1045-9456)
- ARCA card: 10278/37062
2011 Journal Article BASSI; SHAUL Sì, doman: il futuro di Venezia tra incanto e disincanto in CALIFORNIA ITALIAN STUDIES, vol. 2, pp. 1-18 (ISSN 2155-7926)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/38886
2011 Book Article BASSI S. Barefoot to Palestine: the Failed Meetings of Shylock and Othello in TOSI L.; BASSI S., Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, Farnham, Ashgate, pp. 231-249 (ISBN 9788860873149)
- ARCA card: 10278/30321
2011 Book Article Oboe, Annalisa; Bassi, Shaul Introduction: Trying Freedom , Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, New York, Routledge, pp. 1-12 (ISBN 9780415591911; 9780415591928; 9780203828922)
- ARCA card: 10278/3699349
2011 Book Article Tosi, Laura; Bassi, Shaul Introduction: Visions of Venice in Shakespeare in Tosi, Laura; Bassi, Shaul, Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp. 1-15 (ISBN 9781409405474)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3699351
2011 Curatorship (a cura di) A. OBOE; S. BASSI Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures , New York, Routledge, vol. 1, pp. 1-384 (ISBN 9780203828922; 9780415591911; 9780415591928)
- ARCA card: 10278/29094
2011 Curatorship (a cura di) TOSI L.; BASSI S. Visions of Venice in Shakespeare , Farnham, Ashgate, pp. i-259 (ISBN 9781409405474)
- ARCA card: 10278/26018
2010 Book Article Bassi, Shaul; Sirotti, Andrea Introduzione [agli Studi Postcoloniali] , Gli studi postcoloniali. Un'introduzione, Firenze, Le Lettere, pp. 7-36 (ISBN 9788860873149)
- ARCA card: 10278/3699354
2010 Book Article BASSI S. Oltre la 'razza': race e ethnicity negli studi postcoloniali in BASSI S.; SIROTTI A., Gli studi postcoloniali. Un’introduzione, Firenze, Le Lettere, pp. 101-124 (ISBN 9788860873149)
- ARCA card: 10278/30180
2010 Curatorship (a cura di) BASSI S.; SIROTTI A. Gli studi postcoloniali. Un'introduzione , Firenze, Le Lettere (ISBN 9788860873149)
- ARCA card: 10278/26578
2009 Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation BASSI, shaul; serpieri, alessandro William Shakespeare, Otello , Venezia, Marsilio (ISBN 9788831797801)
- ARCA card: 10278/4441
2009 Book Article BASSI S. Guglielmo e Benito. Shakespeare e la razza in epoca fascista in D'AMICO M., CORSO S., Postcolonial Shakespeares. Studi in onore di Viola Papetti, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, vol. 9, pp. 19-32 (ISBN 9788863721034)
- ARCA card: 10278/30189
2009 Book Article BASSI S. ‘The Christian will turn Hebrew’: Converting Shylock on Stage in NAHSHON E., Jewish Theatre: A Global View, Leiden, Brill, pp. 113-132 (ISBN 9789004173354)
- ARCA card: 10278/23358
2008 Book Article BASSI S. Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Animals in Three Kipling Films in ANDREA SCHWENKE WYILE; TEYA ROSENBERG EDS., Considering Children's Literature: A Reader, TORONTO, Broadview Press, pp. 288-296 (ISBN 9781551116044)
- ARCA card: 10278/20822
2007 Scientific monograph or treatise BASSI S.; TOSO FEI A Shakespeare in Venice. Exploring the City with Shylock and Othello , TREVISO, Elzeviro (ISBN 8887528195)
- ARCA card: 10278/20974
2007 Book Article BASSI S. Heart of Darkness and the Postcolonial Process in CORDULA LEMKE; CLAUS ZITTEL EDS., Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), BERLIN, Weidler Buchverlag, pp. 187-216 (ISBN 9783896935014)
- ARCA card: 10278/30653
2007 Book Article BASSI S. I New Jewish Cultural Studies: incontri di civiltà in DANIELA CIANI FORZA; ED., Quale America? Soglie e culture di un continente, VENEZIA, Mazzanti, vol. II, pp. 65-79 (ISBN 9788888114828)
- ARCA card: 10278/20831
2007 Book Article BASSI S. Il corpo politico di Shylock in NICOLETTA VALLORANI;SIMONA BERTACCO EDS., Sul Corpo: Culture/Politiche/Estetiche, MILANO, Cisalpino, pp. 101-114 (ISBN 9788832360844)
- ARCA card: 10278/20823
2006 Book Article BASSI S. 'Funny, you don't look hybrid!': Jewish Memory Revisualized in ORIANA PALUSCI, Postcolonial Studies: Changing Perceptions, TRENTO, Editrice Universita' degli Studi di Trento, pp. 339-353 (ISBN 9788884431752)
- ARCA card: 10278/20825
2006 Book Article BASSI S. Shakespeare Theocon and Neoprog. Political Criticism in the New Machiavellian Moment in SHAUL BASSI; ROBERTA CIMAROSTI, Paper Bullets of the Brain. Experiments with Shakespeare, VENEZIA, Cafoscarina, pp. 201-215 (ISBN 8875432137X)
- ARCA card: 10278/16314
2006 Book Article BASSI S. The Rabbi’s Cat: Arab-Jewish Faultlines in Postcolonial Discourse in FRANCESCO CATTANI; AMANDA NADALINI EDS., The Representation and Transformation of Literary Landscapes, VENEZIA, Cafoscarina, vol. 8875431221, pp. 133-144
- ARCA card: 10278/20826
2006 Curatorship (a cura di) BASSI S.; CIMAROSTI R Paper Bullets of the Brain. Experiments with Shakespeare , VENEZIA, Cafoscarina (ISBN 9788875431372)
- ARCA card: 10278/20824
2005 Book Article BASSI S. In terre antiche. La ‘premodernità liquida’ di Amitav Ghosh in SHAUL BASSI; FLAVIO GREGORI EDS., An Academic and Friendly Masala. Miscellanea di omaggi per Alberta Fabris Grube, VENEZIA, Cafoscarina, pp. 25-33 (ISBN 9788875431037)
- ARCA card: 10278/20827
2005 Curatorship (a cura di) BASSI S.; GREGORI F An Academic and Friendly Masala. Miscellanea di omaggi per Alberta Fabris Grube , VENEZIA, Cafoscarina (ISBN 9788875431037)
- ARCA card: 10278/20525
2004 Book Article BASSI S.; TIRINNANZI N Did Othello Read Giordano Bruno Better than Frances Yates? Shakespeare and Philosophy Realigned in STEPHAN LAQUE AND ENNO RUGE EDS, Realigning Renaissance Culture. Intrusion and Adjustment in Early Modern Drama, TRIER, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 105-117 (ISBN 9783884767146)
- ARCA card: 10278/16258
2004 Book Article BASSI S. Resisting Jews. Allosemitism and the Dialectics of Assimilation in MARCO FAZZINI ED., Resisting Alterities. Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness, AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK, NY, RODOPI, pp. 209-224
- ARCA card: 10278/16216
2003 Book Article BASSI S. Country Dispositions. Ethnic Fallacies in Shakespeare Criticism in GRAHAM BRADSHAW; ANGUS FLETCHER JOHN MUCCIOLO EDS, Where Are We Now in Shakespearean Studies? (The Shakespearean International Yearbook), ALDERSHOT, Ashgate Publishing, vol. 3, pp. 59-76 (ISBN 9780754607717)
- ARCA card: 10278/16260
2003 Book Article BASSI S. Fanti, santi e scherzetti satanici: Salman Rushdie in Italia in MARIO CURRELI E FAUSTO CIOMPI A CURA DI, Many-voicèd fountains. Studi di anglistica e comparatistica in onore di Elsa Linguanti, PISA, ETS, pp. 438-452 (ISBN 9788846707888)
- ARCA card: 10278/16259
2003 Book Article BASSI S. Orpheus’ Other Voyage. Myth, Music and Globalization in ELSA LINGUANTI AND VIKTORIA TCHERNICHOVA EDS, The Great Work of Making Real. Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet, PISA, ETS, pp. 99-115 (ISBN 9788846709066)
- ARCA card: 10278/16262
2003 Book Article BASSI S. The (Un)Making Of Saladin Chamcha. Rushdie's Subversion of The Bildungsroman in RAJESHWAR MITTAPALLI AND JOEL KUORTTI EDS, Salman Rushdie: New Critical Insights, NEW DELHI, Atlantic publishers, vol. 1, pp. 72-86 (ISBN 9788126902026)
- ARCA card: 10278/16309
2002 Journal Article BASSI S. The Moor(lacco) of Genoa: Ethnicity and Loyalty in an Illyrian Othello in LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA, vol. 12.23, pp. 113-129 (ISSN 0862-8424)
- ARCA card: 10278/16250
2002 Journal Article bassi, shaul The Venetian Ghetto and modern Jewish identity in JUDAISM, vol. 51, pp. 469-480 (ISSN 0022-5762)
- ARCA card: 10278/5034940
2002 Book Article BASSI S. Plucking the Lotus Petals. 'Packaging' Poetry Anthologies in Post-Colonial India in GIOVANNI IAMARTINO; MARIALUISA BIGNAMI; CARLO PAGETTI EDS., The Economy Principle in English: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives, MILANO, Unicopli, pp. 669-680 (ISBN 9788840007854)
- ARCA card: 10278/16308
2001 Book Article BASSI S. Il poeta e l'altalena: A.K. Ramanujan in ELSA LINGUANTI A CURA DI, Persistenza della poesia e distruzione del mondo. Testi e studi di poesia anglofona postcoloniale, PISA, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, pp. 54-67 (ISBN 9788883410048)
- ARCA card: 10278/15664
2001 Book Article BASSI S. Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Animals in Three Kipling Films in LAURA TOSI ED., Hearts of Lightness. The World of Children's Literature, VENEZIA, Cafoscarina, pp. 175-185 (ISBN 9788888613185)
- ARCA card: 10278/16252
2000 Scientific monograph or treatise BASSI S. Le metamorfosi di Otello, Storia di un'etnicità immaginaria , BARI, Graphis (ISBN 9788886864367)
- ARCA card: 10278/16251
1999 Book Article BASSI S. Heroes of Two Worlds: Tommaso Salvini, Henry James and Othello's ethnicity in HOLGER KLEIN AND MICHELE MARRAPODI., William Shakespeare and Italy (Shakespeare Yearbook), LEWISTON, Edwin Mellen Press, vol. X, pp. 38-69 (ISBN 9780773479371)
- ARCA card: 10278/16257
1999 Book Article BASSI S. Post-Colonial Poetry in India: a Weather Report in ISABELLA MARIA ZOPPI ED., Routes of the Roots. Geography and Literature in the English Speaking Countries, ROMA, Bulzoni, pp. 113-127 (ISBN 9788883193132)
- ARCA card: 10278/16255
1999 Book Article BASSI S. Salman Rushdie's Special Effects in ELSA LINGUANTI; FRANCESCO CASOTTI; CARMEN CONCILIO EDS, Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Post-Colonial Anglophone Literature, AMSTERDAM & ATLANTA GA, Rodopi, pp. 47-60 (ISBN 9789042004382)
- ARCA card: 10278/16256
1998 Scientific monograph or treatise BASSI S. Poeti indiani del Novecento (di lingua inglese) , VENEZIA, Supernova (ISBN 9788888613185)
- ARCA card: 10278/16253
1998 Book Article BASSI S. Appunti per una storia della diversità di Otello in ANNA ANZI E PAOLO CAPONI A CURA DI, Otello. Voci, echi, risonanze, MILANO, CUEM, pp. 63-78 (ISBN 9788860016072)
- ARCA card: 10278/16254
1995 Journal Article BASSI S. Indian Poetry in English: Some Suggestions on How (Not) to Read It in ANNALI DI CA' FOSCARI, vol. XXXIV, 1-2 (ISSN 1125-3762)
- ARCA card: 10278/16249