Jennifer Scappettone

Jennifer Scappettone works at the crossroads of research, translation, and the literary and visual arts, on the page and off. She is the author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, which was a finalist in the Modernist Studies Association's annual book award competition. Her books of poetry include The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump; From Dame Quickly; and Thing Ode / Ode oggettuale, translated into Italian in dialogue with Marco Giovenale. Her most recent publication is SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED: Two Acts (The Elephants, 2018), an e-chapbook hailing from a libretto composed for live mixed-reality performance with writer and code artist Judd Morrissey and artist/technologist Abraham Avnisan. She edited and translated the Italian writings of the polyglot refugee poet from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli to produce Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which won the Academy of American Poets's biennial Raiziss/De Palchi Book Award; and she curates the Italian section of PennSound, an audiovisual archive of contemporary poetry. She has produced site-specific and interactive texts in collaboration with musicians, code artists, dancers, and architects on performance and installation projects in places ranging from Trajan's aqueduct in Rome to Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island. She is an associate professor of English, Creative Writing, and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.