EILEEN REEVES Department of Comparative Literature 125 East Pyne Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel: 609.258.4266 Fax: 609.258.1873 ereeves [at] princeton.edu EMPLOYMENT 6/07- Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton 6/00-6/07 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton 7/93-6/00 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton 9/89-6/93 Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania EDUCATION 9/87 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Stanford University 5/79 B.A. in French Literature; B.A. in English and American Literature, Whitman College HONORS AND AWARDS 12/11 Old Dominion Professorship, Princeton University, deferred until July 2013-June 2014 3/03 Italian Academy, Columbia University Fellowship for September 2003-May 2004 3/03 Stanford University Humanities Center Fellowship for September 2003-June 2004 (declined) E REEVES CV 2 3/98 Princeton University Grant for Summer Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences 9/96-9/99 Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University 7/95 American Academy in Rome, NEH fellowship, for September 1995- May 1996 (declined) 3/95 Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. NEH fellowship, for January-June 1996 4/90 Folger Library Fellowship in Cartography (declined) 4/90 Herman Dunlop Smith Fellowship in Cartography at the Newberry Library (declined) 2/90 Jeanette D. Black Memorial Fellowship in Cartography at the John Carter Brown Library (deferred until summer 1991) 9/88-6/89 Harvard University, Villa I Tatti Fellow, Florence 5/88-6/89 Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellow, New York 9/87-6/88 New York University, Mellon Fellowship in Italian Baroque Literature 9/82-6/86 Stanford University, Graduate Fellowship in Comparative Literature 5/79 Whitman College, cum laude; Highest Honors in French Literature; Highest Honors in English and American Literature PUBLICATIONS Books Evening News: Optics, Astronomy and Journalism in Early Modern Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. (With Albert Van Helden) Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots 1611-1613. University of Chicago Press, 2010. E REEVES CV 3 Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror. Harvard University Press, 2008. Painting the Heavens: Art and Astronomy in the Age of Galileo. Princeton University Press, 1997. Articles “Galileo, Oracle. On the History of Early Modern Science” in Villa I Tatti Studies 18.1 (2015): 7-22. “Something of a Cypher: Galileo’s Anagrams,” in Andrea Albrecht, Giovanna Cordibella, and Volker Remmert, ed., Tintenfass und Telescope (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014): 15-31. “Astrology and Literature,” in Brendan Dooley, ed., A Companion to Renaissance Astrology (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014). “Hearing Things: Organ Pipes, Trumpets, and Telescopes,” in John W. Hessler and Daniel De Simone, ed., The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: ‘From Doubt to Astonishment’ (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2013) 165-182. “The New Sciences and the Visual Arts,” in Babette Bohn and James Saslow, ed., A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art (Malden, MA and Cambridge, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) 316-335. “Variable Stars: A Decade of Historiography on the Sidereus Nuncius,” Galilaeana VIII (2011): 37-72. “Complete Inventions: the Mirror and the Telescope,” in Albert Van Helden, Sven Dupré, Rob van Gent, and Huib Zuidervaart, ed., The Origins of the Telescope (Amsterdam: KNAW, 2010): 167-182. “From Dante’s Moonspots to Galileo’s Sunspots,” MLN 124.5 (December 2009): 190-209. “Virgil’s Sunspots: From Seasonal Sign to Cultural Climate,” in Alessandro Nova and Tanja Michalsky, eds., Wind und Wetter. Eine Ikonologie der Atmosphäre (Florence: Marsilio, 2009) 77-101. E REEVES CV 4 “Kingdoms of Heaven: Galileo and Sarpi on the Celestial,” Representations 105.4 (2009): 61-84. “Mere Projections: Sunspots and the Camera Obscura,” Galilaeana 4 (2007): 47-77. “Faking It: Apelles and Protogenes among the Astronomers,” Bildwelten des Wissens, Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik 5.2 (2007): 65-72. (With Albert Van Helden) “Verifying Galileo’s Discoveries: Telescope Making at the Collegio Romano,” Acta Historica Astronomiae 33 (2007): 127-141. “Speaking of Sunspots: Oral Culture in an Early Modern Scientific Exchange,” Configurations 13.2 (2007): 185-210. “Occult Sympathies and Antipathies: The Case of Early Modern Magnetism,” in Wolfgang Detel and Claus Zittel, ed., Wissenideale und Wissenkulturen in der frühen Neuzeit (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002) 97-114. “As Good as Gold: The Mobile Earth and Early Modern Economics,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 62 (2000) 1-45. “Representing Invention: The Telescope as News,” in Dana Stewart and Alison Cornish, eds., Sparks and Seeds: Medieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero (Turnhout and Binghamton: SUNY-Brepols: 2000) 267-290. “Old Wives’ Tales and the New World System: Gilbert, Galileo, and Kepler,” Configurations 7 (1999) 301-354. "John Donne and the Oblique Course," Renaissance Studies VII:2 (1993) 168-183. "Reading Maps," Word & Image 9:1 (1993) 51-65; reprinted in Anne Hurley and Kate Greenspan, eds., So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1995) 285-314. "Daniel V and the Assayer: Galileo Reads the Handwriting on the Wall," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 21 (1991) 1-27. E REEVES CV 5 "Augustine and Galileo on Reading the Heavens," Journal of the History of Ideas LII: 4 (1991) 563-579. "Charles Bonnet's Roman Philosophique and Jacques le Fataliste," French Forum XVI: 3 (1991) 285-303. Translator (from the Italian), "Development of a Method," in Representative Essays of Leo Spitzer, A. Forcione, H. Lindenberger, and M. Sutherland, eds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988) 425-448. "Beasts, Machines, and other Humans: Some Views from the Renaissance," (Stanford University: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, 1987) 1-25. "The Rhetoric of Optics: Perspectives on Galileo and Tesauro," Stanford Italian Review VII (1987) 129-144. "Tesauro's Cannocchiale aristotelico," Co-editor, Eugenio Donato, Stanford Italian Review V (1985) 101-114. Reviews and Short Pieces “Five Questions on the Scientific Revolution,” Galilaeana 11 (2014): 23-28. Susan Gaylard, Hollow Men: Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy, Modern Language Quarterly 75.4 (2014): 577-580. Sachiko Kusukawa, Picturing the Book of Nature, Times Literary Supplement 5745 (May 10, 2013) 10. Volker Remmert, Picturing the Scientific Revolution, Print Quarterly 29.4 (2012): 454-458. Horst Bredekamp, Irene Brückle, Oliver Hahn, Paul Needham, eds. Galileo's O, Isis 103.3 (2012): 583-585. Frédérique Aït-Touati, Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43 (2012): 421- 424. E REEVES CV 6 Alexander Marr, Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy, Nuncius 27 (2012): 193-205. Erminia Ardissino, Galileo: La scrittura dell’esperienza, Renaissance Quarterly 64:4 (2011): 1273-1274. John Heilbron, Galileo, Isis 102:3 (2011): 533-536. David Wootton, Galileo Watcher of the Skies, Times Higher Education, December 16, 2010. “Galileo Galilei” in Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis, eds. The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010): 383-384. Maurice Finocchiaro, The Essential Galileo, Journal for the History of Astronomy 41:1 (2010): 127-129. “Macchie Solari e Tavolozze di Pittori,” in Lucia Tongiorgi and Alessandro Nova, eds. Il cannocchiale e il pennello. Nuova scienza e nuova arte nell’età di Galileo (Milan: Giunti, 2009): 214-223. Vincent Ilardi, Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes, Early Science and Medicine 14:4 (2009): 561-563. Mario Biagioli, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy, Isis 98:1 (2007): 179-180. “Science and Literature,” in The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana Marrone Puglia and Paolo Puppa, 2 vols. (New York: Taylor & Francis / Routledge, 2007) 2: 1712-1717. “Galileo Galilei,” in The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, 1: 801-805. Pamela H. Smith, The Body of the Artisan. Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, Renaissance Quarterly 58:2 (2005) 680-682. David Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, Art Bulletin 86:1 (2004): 170-173. E REEVES CV 7 “Galileo Galilei,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Jonathan Dewald, ed., 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003) 3: 5-8. Peter N. Miller, Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century, Renaissance Quarterly 54:4 (2001) 1618-1621. Mary Baine Campbell, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe, and Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert, and Susan Wiseman, eds., At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period, Renaissance Quarterly 54:1 (2001) 298-301. Suzanne B. Butters, The Triumph of Vulcan: Sculptors’ Tools, Porphyry, and the Prince in Ducal Florence, Isis 91:4 (2000) 774-775. Peter Harrison, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science, Renaissance Quarterly 52: 3 (1999) 910-911. Gabriella Moretti, Gli Antipodi: avventure letterarie di un mito scientifico, Speculum 73:3 (1998) 872-874. “Giovanni Antonio Magini’s Manuscript on the Nova of 1604,” Martayan Lan Rare Books Catalogue 22 (1998) 90-92. Michael Murrin, History and Warfare in Renaissance