Jasmine Pisapia holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University in New York and is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, affiliated with the Critical Media Lab. She has published essays on southern Italian anthropologist Ernesto De Martino’s studies of mourning, possession rituals, and the apocalypse in the 1950-60s. As an anthropologist, she has conducted extensive fieldwork on the legacies of southern Italy’s post-WWII industrialization and on the current ecological crisis of Taranto—one of Europe’s most polluted cities due to the largest steel factory of the continent—which is the object of her current book manuscript entitled Taken By Poison: Aesthetics, Environmental Catastrophe, and Italy’s Postindustrial South. Alongside her ethnographic and curatorial work, she is an active collaborator of the NYC-based independent theater company New York City Players (with Richard Maxwell and Katiana Gonçales Rangel). She is currently working on the dramaturgy and production of a collaborative in-situ theater performance in Terzigno near Mount Vesuvius, in collaboration with Museo Emblema and Ex-Asilo Filangieri in Naples. She co-founded colletivo epidemia, a research collective and independent magazine invested in political ecology, art, and grassroots organizations mobilized around food and agroecological practices in Italy. Her work has appeared in Intermédialités/Intermediality, Visual Ethnography, INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, SCAPEGOAT: Architecture | Landscape | Political Economy, Antropologia, and Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology. She is a lecturer at McGill University and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.