Position
Professor of Comparative Literature

Office Phone
609-258-4266

Email
ereeves@princeton.edu

Office
125 East Pyne

Website
http://scholar.princeton.edu/ereeves/


Bio/Description
3Periods: Early Modernity
Languages: French, Italian
Research Interests: Early Modern Scientific Literature
Office Hours Fall 2022:??
?
Eileen Reeves?is Professor of Comparative Literature and an Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science at Princeton University.?She took her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford.? She works at the intersection of early modern literary studies, the history of art, and the history of science.?Much of her research has focused on the figure of Galileo Galilei and his relationship to astronomy, religion, optics, art, and a range of literary forms, including the scientific treatise and dialogue, poetry, dialect literature, journalism, and drama. ?
Books
Evening News: Optics, Astronomy and Journalism in Early Modern Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
On Sunspots (with Albert van Helden) (University of Chicago Press, 2010)?
?
Galileo's Glassworks The Telescope and the Mirror?(Harvard University Press, 2008)?
?
Painting the Heavens (Princeton University Press, 1997)
?