Jennifer Scappettone

Jennifer Scappettone is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. Her research and teaching interests span the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, with particular interest in the way Anglo-American and European languages and aesthetics register changes in the coordinates of space, time, and attention. She is the editor and translator of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and the author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, which is forthcoming from the Columbia University Press.