#  Jeffrey Schnapp 

Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature; Graduate School of Design

Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

 

 

 



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 location\_on Boylston 423 

 smartphone [(617) 495-2528](<tel:(617) 495-2528>) 

 email <jeffrey@metalab.harvard.edu> 

Office Hours: Thursdays 9:00am-10:30am and by appointment

 

 



 

**Research Interests:** Experimental humanities; The material history of literature; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; 20th-century Italian architecture and design; The Fascist Decades; Futurism.

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**Faculty director and founder:** [metaLAB (at) Harvard](http://metalab.harvard.edu/)

**Faculty co-director:** [Berkman Center for Internet and Society](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/)

**Personal website**: <http://jeffreyschnapp.com/>

**Twitter:** <https://twitter.com/jaytiesse>



 

 

 



##  Courses Taught 

 



### Spring, 2026

  [### ROMANCE STUDIES 166 - Calvino and Computation

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2026 

 

  



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

- ## Department Role
    
     [Faculty](/people/role/faculty) [Italian Faculty](/people/role/italian-faculty)
- ## Language
    
     [Italian](/language/italian) [Romance Studies](/language/romance-studies)
- ## Research Interest
    
     [20th Century](/research-interest/20th-century) [Literature](/research-interest/literature) [Italian](/research-interest/italian) [Comparative Literature](/research-interest/comparative-literature)