Jennifer Scappettone works at the confluence of the literary, visual, and scholarly arts, focusing on the way language shapes our relation to built and natural environments under the anthropocene. She is the author of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2016) and editor and translator of Locomotrix (University of Chicago Press, 2012), devoted to the work of the poet-refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli. Recent poetry volumes include The Republic of Exit 43 (Small Press Distribution, 2016) and Belladonna Elders Series: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse with Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian (Small Press Distribution, 2009). She has collaborated on performances responding to sites ranging from Fresh Kills Landfill to the Janiculum Hill. She is Associate Professor in the Program of Creative Writing and Departments of English Language and Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.