Written Arts Program, Italian Studies Program, and Division of Languages and Literature Present
Venice by Electric Moonlight
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Jennifer Scappettone is Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, her study of the outmoded city of lagoons as a crucible for experiments across literature, politics, urbanism, and the visual arts, was published by Columbia University Press in 2014. Her translations from the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli. She is now at work on translations of the futurist F.T. Marinetti and feminist Carla Lonzi. She founded, and now curates, PennSound Italiana, a new sector of the audiovisual archive based at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to experimental Italian poetry. Her poetry collections include From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press in 2009) and EXIT 43: Outtakes and Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos Press 2016).
Installation pieces were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina Gallery in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, and she has collaborated on multidisciplinary performance works with a wide range of musicians, architects, and dancers. She is currently sharing a Mellon Fellowship for Arts and Scholarship with the code artist Judd Morrissey and cross-media artist Caroline Bergvall at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to work on a project exploring the poetics and politics of air called The Data That We Breathe.
For more information, call 845-758-7337, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: RKC 103
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