Jessica Sewell

Jessica Sewell’s research focuses on the relationships between gender and architecture, urban space, and material culture. 

Her main current research looks at the question of men in private space, focusing on the bachelor pad as a site of masculine fantasy and an urbanized counterpoint to the suburban home in the 1950s-60s United States. She is also at work on a collaborative book on the architect and urbanist Giancarlo de Carlo and a new project on the Great Valley of the Appalachians. 

She is also author of the app Exploring Suzhou, which provides a cultural landscapes tour of the Chinese city of Suzhou. This app was used for many years to enrich the teaching in large-enrollment classes in Architecture and Urban Planning and Design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. This app is also the seed of a digital project in process, the Guide to Suzhou Cultural Landscapes, supported by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH).