Terra Infecta Book Launch

Join us on April 2 at 7pm for the New York launch of Andrea Bagnato’s narrative essay Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape (MACK, 2025). Bagnato will be joined by poet Megan Fernandes and curator Ivan L. Munuera. They will read from their work, and come together in a conversation drawing upon their mutual thinking on vulnerability, health, and ecology.

Based on a decade of research and fieldwork, Terra Infecta is an attempt at writing a political history of the landscape. Touching Naples, Venice, Milan, and Matera, the book critiques the economic dispossession, epistemic erasure, and ecological loss that modernization left in its wake, but also reveals moments of organisation and resistance.

Andrea Bagnato is an architect and writer. He has taught at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and the Decolonizing Architecture program at KKH Stockholm. Previous books include the collective volumes Rights of Future Generations (Hatje Cantz, 2022) and A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change (Columbia, 2019). He lives in Genoa, Italy. 

Megan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Fernandes has published in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, among others. Her third book of poetry, I Do Everything I’m Told (Tin House 2023) was named a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, Vogue, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, and LitHub, among others. Fernandes is an Associate Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry, environmental writing, and critical theory. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Yaddo Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, etc. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.

Ivan L. Munuera is a New York-based scholar, critic, and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics, and bodily practices. Munuera has curated exhibitions and presented projects at institutions including Museo Reina Sofía, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He is an Assistant Professor at Bard College.

Together, Ivan and Andrea curated Vulnerable Beings, an exhibition and public program that took place at MAAT, Lisbon, in 2021 and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, in 2022.