Shaul Bassi
Italian academic
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Shaul Bassi is professor of English and postcolonial literature at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.[1] He is the director of the Venice Center for Humanities and Social Change.[2] His work has focused on Shakespeare and post-colonial theory.[3] Bassi has also written about the present environmental and social issues of Venice, as well as the city's history.[4][5]
Books
- Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, "Race," Politics, Reproducing Shakespeare: New Studies in Adaptation and Appropriation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.[6]
- The Ghetto Inside Out, with Isabella Di Lenardo, Corte del Fondego, 2013
- Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, edited with Laura Tosi, Ashgate, 2011, reprinted by Routledge, 2016.[7]
- Essere qualcun altro. Ebrei postmoderni e postcoloniali, Cafoscarina, 2011.
- Le metamorfosi di Otello, Storia di un'etnicità immaginaria, Graphis, 2000.