Invited Lectures

Dec. 2009  “Interdisciplinarity.” The State of Italian Studies. Wellesley College, MA.

Oct. 2009 “Niccolò Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Mathematics.

April 2009 “Leon Battista Alberti e la crittografia: Un duetto in cifra tra il linguaggio e la matematica.” Palazzo Rucellai. Florence, Italy.

Nov. 2008 “Literature and Mathematics in Early Modern Italy.” Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy.

March 2008 “Twists, Knots, and the Very Small: Pathways into the Literary and
Mathematical Imaginations.” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Feb. 2008 “Alberti’s Cryptography.” Codes in Conflict: New Formations in Early Modern Studies. The Center for Early Modern Studies. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dec. 2007 “Dante: Stella della cultura Pop?” Circolo Italiano di Boston. Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA.

Feb. 2006 Keynote: “In a network of lines that enlace: Science and the Italian Literary Imagination.” Graduate Student Conference: Scientifica-mente: The Symbiosis of Literature and Science in Italian Culture. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Jan. 2006 “A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld: The Polyphonic Discourse of Electronic Music.” University of
California, Santa Cruz.

May 2005 “Rewarding.” Bowdoin Honors Day.

Feb. 2005 “Lyrical Numbers: The Poetry of Mathematics in Early Modern Europe.” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Feb. 2005 “Lyrical Numbers: The Poetry of Mathematics in Early Modern Europe.” Yale University, New Haven, CT.

June 2004 “Spazio e letteratura.” Centro Internazionale di Studi Deradiani, San Demetrio Corone, Italy.

March 2004 “Number, Shape, and Word in Renaissance Italian Literature.” Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

March 2004 “Well-Versed Mathematics in Early Modern Italy.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

April 2003 “Hyperdimensionality in Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso.” Dante Society of America, Cambridge, MA.

March 1999 “Giordano Bruno’s Ars memoriae.” Smith College, Northampton, MA.

Feb. 1998 “Ornamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno’s Geometry.” Graduate Student Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

June 1996 “La cultura dello studio negli Stati Uniti.” Appello per la cultura e la ricerca in Europa, Camera dei Deputati, Rome, Italy.

Aug. 1995 “Food and Futurism.” Architectural Curiosities. Philadelphia Arts Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.