Schnapp Biography
Jeffrey Schnapp (1954 - ) American designer and historian at Harvard University, is a pioneer in various fields of transdisciplinary research, including digital humanities. He was the founding director of the Stanford Humanities Lab, full professor of French, Italian, comparative literature and German studies and founder in 2011 of metaLAB (at) Harvard. A Bildungsroman philologist, he is the author of twenty-five books and more than two hundred essays on authors such as Virgil, Albertino Mussato, Dante Alighieri, Hildegard von Bingen, Francesco Petrarca and Niccolò Machiavelli, the new materials of architecture and the iconography of the pipe in modern Art. Originally trained as a medievalist, his recent publications cover the modern and contemporary era with a focus on media, technology, architecture, design, and book history. These include The Electric Information Age Book (Princeton Architectural Press 2012); Modernitalia (Peter Lang 2012) an anthology of essays on 20th century Italian art, literature, design and architecture entitled; The Library Beyond the Book (Harvard University Press 2014). His latest book is FuturPiaggio (Rizzoli International, 2017): six Italian lessons on mobility and modern life, published in English and Italian.
