The Department of American Studies: Literature and Media cordially invites all students, faculty, and guests to a lecture by the American poet, scholar, and activist Jennifer Scappettone “Agitating a Copper Lyre: Geopoetics of Extraction and the Archaeology of the ‘Cloud’”.
Date: December 9th, 2025 (Tuesday),
Time: 13:15
Venue: Sala Górna, Collegium Heliodori
Jennifer Scappettone is an acclaimed poet, translator, scholar, and multimedia artist whose work explores intersections between literature, the environment, urban space, and digital culture.
She is the author of the poetry collections “From Dame Quickly” and “The Republic of Exit 43”, a genre-blending investigation of waste, infrastructure, and ecopoetics, and as well as the scholarly monographs “Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice” (Columbia UP, 2014) and ”Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism” (Columbia UP, 2025). She also edited and translated the landmark volume “Locomotrix: Selected Poetry of Amelia Rosselli,” a major contribution to modernist and translation studies. Her scholarship spans modernist and contemporary poetry, environmental humanities, and performance studies, and she has collaborated widely with composers, architects, and choreographers. Scappettone teaches at the University of Chicago, where her work continues to interrogate how poetic and artistic practices respond to ecological crisis and technological transformation.