Jeffrey Schnapp
Novecento in Saggio
Best Published Scholarly Work on 20thC Italian Creative Prose
Panel 3 Judge
Jeffrey T. Schnapp occupies the Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Studies at Stanford University, where he is the founder-director of the Stanford Humanities Lab: a transdisciplinary research center dedicated to exploring innovative scenarios for the future of knowledge production and reproduction in the arts and humanities. He is the author or editor of eighteen books and of large corpus of essays on topics such as late antique patchwork poetry, futurist and dadaist visual poetics, architecture and engineering during the interwar period, and the cultural history of modern materials. He is editor of the Johns Hopkins University Press quarterly Modernism/modernity, the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association, and an active guest curator whose collaborations have included work with the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Arts Center, the Triennale di Milano, and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. Among his recent curatorial projects are Speed Limits, which has completed its run at the Canadian Center for Architecture and will reopen at the Wolfsonian-FIU in December 2010; and Storicamente ABC, an experimental history museum project installed in two 320 meter highway tunnels at the entrance of the city of Trento in Northern Italy. During 2009-2010 he is visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
