Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing, published Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014). She received the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Translation Award for Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012). She was the Bogliasco Foundation's Fellow in Literature and received a Library Research Grant from the Getty Research Institute. Scappettone also received a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship from UChicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry as well as the Chandis Securities Fellowship from the Huntington Library.