Shaul Bassi
Shaul Bassi is Professor of English Literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he directs the Master's Degree in Environmental Humanities. His publications include a critical edition of Othello (Marsilio 2009), Visions of Venice in Shakespeare (co-edited with Laura Tosi, Ashgate 2011), and Shakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare. Place, "Race", and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). He is the co-founder and former director of Venice international literary festival Incroci di civiltà. He directed the Creative Europe project "Shakespeare In and Beyond the Ghetto" (2016-2020), which included the first performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in the Ghetto of Venice.
