Manhattan University Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center

Shaul Bassi is associate professor of English language and literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice. His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, postcolonial theory and literature (India and Africa), and Jewish studies. He has lectured at several Italian and international universities (London, Munich,Valencia, Berkeley, Toronto, Atlanta, New York, Praga, Nairobi); 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 founder of the international literary festival Crossings of Civilizations (www.incrocidicivilta.org). He is the co-founder and Italian president of the Venice Center for International Jewish Studies (www.venicejewishstudies.org)