Arielle Saiber

Associate Professor of Italian

Spring 2009

  • on leave for the 2008-09 academic year

Phone (207) 725-3354
Title Associate Professor
Department ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Work Location 6 Sills Hall
E-Mail asaiber@bowdoin.edu
Arielle Saiber: Assistant Professor of Romance Languages: Bowdoin College: Italian

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 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.

“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

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

“When in (Renaissance) Rome...” Cabinet. A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture.

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

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

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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