Arielle Saiber

Associate Professor of Italian

Phone (207) 725-3354
Title Associate Professor
Department Romance Languages
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Work Location 116 Kanbar Hall
E-Mail asaiber@bowdoin.edu
Arielle Saiber: Assistant Professor of Romance Languages: Bowdoin College: Italian

Spring 2010

  • Elementary Italian II (ITAL 102)
  • Italian Theater (ITAL 314)
  • Independent Study in Italian (ITAL 401)

Education

Ph.D., Italian Literature, Yale University
B.A., Philosophy, Hampshire College

Research interests

  • Medieval and Renaissance literature and philosophy
  • Intersections between mathematics and literature
  • The literary fantastic
  • The imagination
  • Theories of "space"
  • Technology

Teaching areas

Dante, medieval and early modern Italian literature, the literary fantastic, science and literature

Publications

Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of LanguageImages of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and ArtDantis Purgatorio

Books

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

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

Articles

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

with Henry S. Turner. Introduction to Mathematics and the Imagination. Ed. Arielle Saiber and Henry S. Turner. A special issue of the journal Configurations. Projected publication: 2010.

“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 on-line 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.

Works in Progress

“Q.E.D. in Boccaccio’s Caccia di Diana.”

“Niccolo’ Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation.”  Science, Literature, and the Arts in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. Ed. Federica Anichini.

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

with Mark Peterson, “Dante and Archimedes: Measuring the Circle in Paradiso XXXIII.”

Dante Today: Sightings and Citings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Dante and Longfellow. Ed. Arielle Saiber and Giuseppe Mazzotta. A special issue of the journal Dante Studies.

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

Web Project

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

Grants - Fellowships - Awards

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)
2002 – 2003 Mellon Foundation (a planning grant for the development of a project of the Dante Society of America entitled Illuminating Dante)
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

Invited Lectures

Recent Conference Papers and Participation

Professional Activities

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