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), Venice and the Anthropocene. An Ecocritical Guide (co-edited, wetlands 2023) and African Venice (with Paul Kaplan, wetlands 2024). He is the co-founder of Venice international literary festival Incroci di civiltà /Crossings of Civilizations.


Shaul Bassi is the co-curator of the Walk & Collaborative Workhsop “A Decolonial Walk in Venice” that will take place on Saturday 9th November at 9:30h. Register here.