Italian

Books

Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2005).

with Stefano Baldassarri, ed. Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

Articles

with Aba Mbirika. "The tre giri of Par. XXXIII." Dante Studies. Forthcoming.

“The Game of Love: Caccia di Diana.” Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Ed. Victoria Kirkham, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Smarr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.

“The Song of the Return: Paradiso XXXIII.” Lectura Dantis: Paradiso. Ed. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press. Forthcoming.

“Paul Laffoley’s Dante’s Divine Comedy Triptych.” Paul Laffoley: Building for the Bauharoque. Ed. Doug Walla. New York: Kent Gallery, Inc. Forthcoming.

“Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction.” California Italian Studies 2 (2011): 1-47. 

• translated into Romanian by Cristian Tamas, Rivista Nautilus (2012): 
• translated into Italian by Lea Ciccarese, Part I: IF: Insolito & Fantastico 11 (2012): 100-107; Part II: IF: Insolito & Fantastico 12 (2013): 92-98.

"The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance." Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. London: Routledge Press. 2010: 423-437.

with Henry S. Turner. Introduction to “Mathematics and the Imagination.”  Ed. Arielle Saiber and Henry S. Turner. A special issue of Configurations 17 (2009): 1-18.

“When in (Renaissance) Rome...” Cabinet. A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture 35 (2009): 12-15.

“Virtual Reality: Purgatorio XV.” Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio. Eds. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008: 151-166.

“The Polyvalent Discourse of Electronic Music.” PMLA. October (2007): 1613-1625.

“Flexilinear Language in Giambattista Della Porta’s Elementorum curvilinearoum libri tres.” Annali d’Italianistica 23 (2005): 89-104.

“The Giordano Asteroid and Giordano Bruno Lunar Crater: A Tale of Two Namings.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 10.1 (2004): 183-191.

with Elliott King. “Hyperdimensionality in Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso.” Illuminating Dante (an online database of articles supported by the Dante Society of America and a grant from the Mellon Foundation), April, 2003.

“Ornamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno’s Geometry.” Sixteenth Century Journal 34 (2003): 730-747.

“Un convegno su Bruno a Chicago.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 5 (1999) 1:213-15.

Guest Editor for Journals

with Giuseppe Mazzotta. Longfellow and Dante. A special issue of Dante Studies 128 (2010). 371pp.

with Henry S. Turner. Mathematics and the Imagination.  A special issue of Configurations 17 (2009). 195pp.

Works in Progress

with Giuseppe Lippi, ed. Piazza Galattica: An Anthology of Italian Science Fiction from the 1860s-1960s. Advance contract with Wesleyan University Press.

with Deanna Shemek and Mary Ann Smart, ed. Italian Sound. A special issue of California Italian Studies.

Well-Versed Mathematics in Early Modern Italy (1450-1650). Advance contract with the University of Toronto Press.

Translation and critical edition of Giordano Bruno, De l’infinito universo e mondi (London, 1584) for the University of Toronto Press. Ed. Brian Copenhaver and David Marsh.

Web Project

Dante Today: Sightings and Citings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. (online since fall 2006)

Book Reviews

Simonetta Bassi, ed., Bruno nel XXI secolo. Interpretazioni e ricerche. Atti delle giornate di Studio (Pisa, 15-16 ottobre 2009), with a bibliography of Bruno studies from 2001-2010 by Maria Elena Severini (Florence: Olschki, 2012) for Medium Aevum. Forthcoming.

Anna Laura Puliafito Bleuel, Comica pazzia: Vicissitudine e destini umani nel Candelaio di Giordano Bruno (Florence: Olschki, 2007) for Renaissance Quarterly 62 (Spring 2009): 207-209.

Eugenio Canone and Ingrid Rowland, ed. The Alchemy of Extremes: The Laboratory of The Eroici Furori of Giordano Bruno (Pisa-Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2007) for The Medieval Review. (2008)

Leo Catana, The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno’s Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 2005) for Renaissance Quarterly 59.3 (2006): 833-834.

Pierpaolo Antonello and Simon Gilson, ed., Science and Literature in Italian Culture: A Festschrift for Pat Boyde (Oxford: Legenda, 2005) for Italian Studies 60.2 (2005): 255-257.

Louis Van Delft, Frammento e anatomia: Rivoluzione scientifica e creazione letteraria (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004) for Renaissance Quarterly 58.3 (2005): 990-992.

Simon Gilson, Medieval Optics and Theories of Light in the Works of Dante (NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) for Italian Culture 20 (2002).

Alison Cornish, Reading Dante’s Stars (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) for Italian Culture 20 (2002).

Encyclopedia Entries

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Ed. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa. 2 vols. (London: Routledge Press, 2006).
 Folgore da San Gimignano
 Rustico di Filippo

The Encyclopedia of Literature and Science (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
 Literature and Science in Italy
 Dante
 Leonardo da Vinci
 Giambattista Vico

Translations

Ordine, Nuccio. Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass (1987). Tr. Henryk Baranski and Arielle Saiber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

The diaries of architect Paolo Soleri, 1994 (not for publication).

2012 Faculty Research Grant (Bowdoin College, for Piazza Galattica)
2012-2013 Faculty Sabbatical Supplement (Bowdoin College)
2008 – 2009 Villa I Tatti Fellowship, The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies
2008 – 2009 NEH Research Fellowship
2004 – Sydney B. Karofsky Prize (for teaching)
2003 – 2004 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
2003 – 2004 Kenan Research Fellowship (Bowdoin College for sabbatical)
2000, 2007 Bowdoin Faculty Research Awards
2000 – Theron Rockwell Field Prize (Yale University)
1998 – 1999 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Dissertation Award (Naples, Italy)
1998 (fall) Yale College Fellow to teach a College Seminar
1998 (summer) John Perry Miller Research Grant
1998 (summer) Warburg Institute Seminar Fellowship (London, England)
1997 – 1998 Lionel Pincus Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities
1997 (summer) John F. Enders Research Grant
1995 – 1998 (summers) Centro Internazionale di Studi Bruniani research grants (Naples, Italy)
1994 (spring) Folger Institute Fellow
1993 – 1997 Yale University Fellowship
1993 – 1995 A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship for Italian Studies
1993 The Pirandello Lyceum Award for Italian Studies

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