Arielle Saiber is Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Saiber's books include\u00a0Images of Quattrocento Florence: Writings on Literature, History and Art<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>co-edited with Stefano U. Baldassarri (Yale, 2000);\u00a0Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Ashgate\/Routledge, 2005);\u00a0and\u00a0Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Toronto Press, 2017).<\/p>\r\n Saiber publishes primarily on Dante, on the intersections between premodern Italian literature and mathematics\/science, and visual interpretations of Dante\u2019s Commedia<\/em>. \u00a0She has also published on early print history, science fiction, and experimental electronic music.\u00a0 Her current research is on \u201caltered states of consciousness\u201d in medieval and Renaissance Italian literature.<\/p>\r\n She has co-edited a number of special issues of academic journals: for\u00a0Configurations,\u00a0\u201cMathematics and the Imagination\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(2009) with Henry S. Turner; for\u00a0Dante Studies<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cLongfellow and Dante<\/a>\u201d (2010) with Giuseppe Mazzotta; for\u00a0California Italian Studies<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cSound<\/a>\u201d (2014) with Deanna Shemek; and for\u00a0Science Fiction Studies<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cItalian Science Fiction<\/a>\u201d (2015) with Salvatore Proietti and Umberto Rossi. \u00a0She is currently co-editing with Proietti an anthology of Italian science fiction in English for Wesleyan University Press's\u00a0Early Classics of Science Fiction<\/a>\u00a0series.<\/p>\r\n Her doctoral dissertation on Giordano Bruno won\u00a0Yale\u2019s Field Prize<\/a>\u00a0(2000), and in 2004 she received the\u00a0Karofsky Prize<\/a>\u00a0for teaching at Bowdoin.\u00a0 She has been a fellow at the\u00a0Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici<\/a>\u00a0in Naples, Italy (1998-1999),\u00a0the\u00a0Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study<\/a>\u00a0(2003-2004), and\u00a0Villa I Tatti - Harvard\u2019s Center for Renaissance Studies<\/a>\u00a0in Florence, Italy (2008-2009).\u00a0 She also received an\u00a0NEH Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0(2008-2009), the MLA's\u00a0Scaglione Publication Award<\/a>\u00a0(2016), the Newberry Library's\u00a0Weiss-Brown Publication Award\u00a0<\/a>(2017), the American Initiative for Italian Culture's\u00a0Bridge Book Award<\/a>\u00a0(2018), and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts'\u00a0Kendrick Book Prize<\/a>\u00a0(2019) for her book\u00a0Measured Words.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n In 2006 she built the web-based archive,\u00a0Dante Today<\/a>: Sightings and Citings of Dante\u2019s Work in Contemporary Culture<\/em>, which she now co-edits with Beth Coggeshall<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n She co-edits the new book series\u00a0Proximities: Experiments in Nearness<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0David Cecchetto\u00a0<\/a>for the University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["Books and Edited Volumes<\/h3>\r\n
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![IF: Insolito & Fantastico<\/em><\/a>\u00a011 (2012):\u00a0100-107;\u00a0Part\u00a0II:\u00a0IF: Insolito & Fantastico<\/em><\/a>\u00a012 (2013): 92-98; Part III:\u00a0IF: Insolito & Fantastico<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>13 (2013): 94-110.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\"The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance<\/a>.\" Routledge Companion to Literature and Science<\/em>. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. London: Routledge Press. 2010:\u00a0423-437. (full article here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\nIntroduction to \u201cMathematics and the Imagination,<\/a>\u201d with Henry S. Turner. Configurations<\/em> 17.1-2 (2009): 1-18. (full article here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n\u201cWhen in (Renaissance) Rome...<\/a>\u201d Cabinet. A Quarterly Magazine of Art<\/em>and Culture<\/em> 35 (2009): 12-15.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n\u201cVirtual Reality: Purgatorio<\/em> XV.\u201d Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio<\/em>. Eds. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008: 151-166.\u00a0(full article here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n\u201cThe Polyvalent Discourse of Electronic Music<\/a>.\u201d PMLA <\/em>122.5\u00a0(2007): 1613-1625. (full article here<\/a>) Featured on Fluid Radio<\/em><\/a>, January 28, 2014<\/li>\r\n\u201cFlexilinear Language in Giambattista Della Porta\u2019s Elementorum curvilinearoum libri tres<\/em><\/a>.\u201d Annali d\u2019Italianistica<\/em> 23 (2005): 89-104. (full article here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n\u201cThe Giordano Asteroid and Giordano Bruno Lunar Crater: A Tale of Two Namings<\/a>.\u201d Bruniana & Campanelliana<\/em> 10.1 (2004): 183-191. (full article here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n\u201cHyperdimensionality in Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s Illustrations of Dante\u2019s Paradiso,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0with Elliott King. Illuminating Dante<\/em> (an online database of articles supported by the Dante Society of America and a grant from the Mellon Foundation), April, 2003.<\/li>\r\n\u201cOrnamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno\u2019s Geometry.<\/a>\u201d Sixteenth Century Journal<\/em> <\/a>34 (2003): 730-747. (full article here)<\/li>\r\n\u201cUn convegno su Bruno a Chicago.<\/a>\u201d Bruniana & Campanelliana<\/em> 5 (1999) 1: 213-15.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWorks in Progress<\/h3>\r\n\r\nanthology: Fantascienza: An Anthology of Italian Science Fiction from the 1860s-1960s,<\/em> ed.\u00a0with S. Proietti.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nNon-Academic Writing<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\u201cA Present Absence: On Collective Forgetting and the Drive to Remember.<\/a>\u201d Foreword to Kat Mustatea,\u00a0Voidopolis<\/em>. An augmented reality book presented at Ars Electronica<\/a>, 2021: xvii-xxi, forthcoming in 2023 with MIT Press.<\/li>\r\n\"Leonardo da Vinci Saw in Animals 'the image of the world'<\/a>.\" The Conversation.<\/em>\u00a0April 12, 2019.\u00a0 (Also published in Towle Road, World Economic Forum, SF Gate, The Raw Story, Feedly, News Republic, Flipboard, and elsewhere)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nBook Reviews<\/h3>\r\n\r\nMartin McLaughlin.\u00a0Leon Battista Alberti: la vita, l\u2019umanesimo, le opere letterarie\u00a0(Florence: Olschki, 2018) for <\/em>Modern Language Review<\/a> 113.2 (2018): 414-416.<\/li>\r\nPaolo d\u2019Alessandro and Pier Daniele Napolitani, ed. Archimede Latino<\/em>. Iacopo da San Cassiano e il<\/em> Corpus\u00a0archimedeo alla met\u00e0 del quattrocento, con edizione della<\/em> Circuli Dimensio e della<\/em> Quadratura Parabolae.\u00a0 Tr. P. d\u2019Alessandro and P. D. Napolitani (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012) for Renaissance Quarterly<\/em><\/a> 67.3 (2014).<\/li>\r\nSimonetta Bassi, ed., Bruno nel XXI secolo. Interpretazioni e ricerche. Atti delle giornate di Studio (Pisa, 15-16 ottobre 2009)<\/em>, with a bibliography of Bruno studies from 2001-2010 by Maria Elena Severini (Florence: Olschki, 2012) for\u00a0Medium Aevum<\/em><\/a> 82.2 (2013): 376.<\/li>\r\nAnna Laura Puliafito Bleuel, Comica pazzia: Vicissitudine e destini umani nel<\/em> Candelaio di Giordano Bruno<\/em> (Florence: Olschki, 2007) for Renaissance Quarterly<\/em><\/a> 62 (Spring 2009): 207-209.<\/li>\r\nEugenio Canone and Ingrid Rowland, ed. The Alchemy of Extremes: The Laboratory of<\/em>The Eroici Furori of Giordano Bruno<\/em> (Pisa-Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2007) for The Medieval Review<\/em><\/a>. (2008)<\/li>\r\nLeo Catana, The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno\u2019s Philosophy<\/em> (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 2005) for Renaissance Quarterly<\/em> <\/a>59.3 (2006): 833-834.<\/li>\r\nPierpaolo Antonello and Simon Gilson, ed., Science and Literature in Italian Culture: A Festschrift for Pat Boyde<\/em> (Oxford: Legenda, 2005) for](\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-U6HXKD1job4\/UaiuymLzceI\/AAAAAAAAAVE\/ClkA8rzLtNc\/s1600\/IF11+Mainstream+Ottobre+2012+indice.jpg\"){kind=link}