Jennifer Scappettone
Jennifer Scappettone's current book projects include From Dame Quickly (poems), Locomotrix: Selected Poetry of Amelia Rosselli (translations), Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern (a critical study of the obsolescent metropolis as a crucible for modernism), and Exit 43 (an archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups in progress, commissioned by Atelos Press). She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
One Venice After Another: The Present Tense of the Future-Past at the 52nd Biennale
By Jennifer ScappettoneSeeing remains a specifically sited enterprise, it seems at times, against every mirage of neutrality or cosmopolitan haze that threatens to be whipped up by Biennials of Art.
First Italian Prose (1954)
By Jennifer Scappettone and Amelia RosselliI don’t know what new rigor brought me to you, houses of black terrain…
Excerpts from Beauty (Is the New Absurdity)
By Jennifer ScappettoneBeauty was thereafter ugly the new Black