Carla Mazzio, Associate Professor of English at The University at Buffalo, SUNY, earned her MA and PhD from Harvard University and her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She specializes in Renaissance literature and culture and has special interests in literature and the history of science and medicine. Her published work has focused on literature and the history of the human body, the history of the book, and the cultural as well as aesthetic history of the inarticulate person or community. Her current book project, entitled Calculating Minds: Literature and Mathematics in the Renaissance, examines the irrational dimensions of mathematics as it impacted aesthetic innovation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.