Shaul BASSI
- Position
- Full Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 7872
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bassi@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- English Literature [ANGL-01/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/bassi(personal record)
Office hours
Starting on 10 September, my office hours will be on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Advance notice by email would be appreciated. Please check the noticeboard the day before for any changes.
Teaching activity current year
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ MODERNE E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [R352]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)
Teaching activity previous years
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea
SUMMER SCHOOL SIE [SUM]
Corso di Perfezionamento
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
SUMMER SCHOOL SIE [SUM]
Corso di Perfezionamento
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LM5]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
SCIENZE UMANE PER L’AMBIENTE [NA04]
Minor
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E CIVILTÀ DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA [LM20]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
SCIENZE UMANE PER L’AMBIENTE [NA04]
Minor
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Letteratura inglese [ANGL-01/A]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, Estremo Oriente, Medio Oriente, Africa Caraibi e Pacifico
- Known languages
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inglese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
francese (scritto: base parlato: intermedio)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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Il Tolomeo
De Genere
From the European South
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea:
Pedagogia sperimentale
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letterature comparate
Area: Letteratura
Area: Lingue e letterature del sub continente indiano
Area: Studi postcoloniali Linea: Anglofonia
- La rappresentazione dell'Italia e della sua cultura nel cinema e nel teatro delle ex-colonie britanniche, le settler colonies e in opere letterarie di scrittori post-coloniali anglofoni
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- Funding body:
- MIUR
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2011 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Marco FAZZINI
Flavio GREGORI
David John NEWBOLD
- SHABEGH - SHAKESPEARE IN AND BEYOND THE GHETTO
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- Funding body:
- European Union
- Type:
- Creative Europe - Sottoprogramma Cultura
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2017 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Monica BANZATO
Publication highlights
Bassi Shaul Eating Under Water: Speculative Jewish Gastronomy in Venice , Stories Come to Matter: Water, Food, and other Entanglements, Venezia, Edizioni Ca'Foscari, vol. 39, pp. 99-111 (ISBN 9788869699061) (ISSN 2610-8844)
DOI 2025,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5098308
Paul Kaplan; Shaul Bassi African Venice. A Guide to Art, Culture and People , Venezia, wetlands (ISBN 979-12-80930-27-9)
2024,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5063981
Shaul Bassi Pianeta Ofelia. Fare Shakespeare nell'Antropocene , Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, vol. 334 (ISBN 978-88-339-4381-7)
- URL correlato 2024,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5098288
shaul bassi William Shakespeare, Il mercante di Venezia , Milano, Rizzoli (ISBN 9788817182720)
- URL correlato 2024,
Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/5098307
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 2024,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5063985
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
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.
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