UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Arielle Saiber, associate professor of Italian at Bowdoin College, will present “So Say We All: The Fiction of World Science Fiction,” at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, March 21, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Saiber has published articles on medieval and early modern Italian literature; early modern mathematics, print history, and advice manuals; literature and science studies; genre theory and experimental electronic music; and Dante in contemporary culture. Her book “Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language” was published in 2005, and her co-edited anthology, “Images of Quattrocento Florence: Writings on Literature, History and Art,” was released in 2000. She has also co-edited special issues of Configurations (“Mathematics and the Imagination”), Dante Studies, and California Italian Studies.

This event is a part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series, a weekly, informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community. Each week the event begins at 12:15 p.m. — participants are encouraged to bring lunch; coffee and tea are free. At 12:30 p.m. there will be a presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline. All students, faculty, colleagues and friends are welcome. For a full list of Comparative Literature lunches, visit http://complit.la.psu.edu/news-events/comp-lit-luncheon-series.