Giovanni Bassi is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences (Rome). Previously, he held the position of Junior Research Fellow in English Literature at LUM University (Casamassima, Bari), where he taught English at the Departments of Finance, Management and Technology, Medicine and Surgery, and Engineering. In 2021 he was Adjunct Professor of English Literature at the University of Ferrara.

Professor Bassi holds a PhD (2020) in Literature, Art, and History of Medieval and Modern Europe from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). He graduated in European Literatures and Philologies from the University of Pisa and has a specialized second-cycle diploma (‘corso ordinario’) in Modern Languages and Literatures from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa).

He is the author of monographs on the reception of French Symbolism in the journal Criterion (2020) and on post-Romantic flower imagery (2022), as well as of a number of articles and book chapters on Victorian poetry, late nineteenth-century literary culture, Walter Pater, Anglophone Parnassianism, and the American poet Amanda Gorman. He also has co-edited a collection of essays on English literature and photography. His main research interests include nineteenth-century literature, Aestheticism and Decadence, (pre)Modernism, flower poetics, sensory studies, English metre, stylistics, cognitive linguistics, and neurolinguistics.

He is member of the Steering Committee of the Associazione Italiana Docenti di Anglistica (ANDA; Italian Association of English Literature).