Jennifer Scappettone

Jennifer Scappettone works at the confluence of the literary, scholarly, visual, and performing arts to rethink the way language shapes our relation to built and natural environments. Her poetry unfolds in counterpoint to documentary research. Recent books include The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (2016) and Belladonna Elders Series: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (with Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian, 2009). As translator she has published Locomotrix, devoted to the poet-refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli (2012). Scappettone has collaborated with musicians, architects, and dancers to sound counter-histories of sites ranging from the tract of Trajan’s aqueduct beneath the Janiculum Hill to Fresh Kills Landfill. She teaches at the University of Chicago.