Jennifer Scappettone works at the confluence of the literary, scholarly, visual, and performing arts. Her most recent books are The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump, SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED: 2 Acts, and Poetry After Barbarism: Fascism, Xenoglossia, and the Invention of Motherless Tongues, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2025.