erin Petrella

Adjunct professor

ep2132@columbia.edu

614 Hamilton Hall

Office hours: Mondays, Wednesday 4p-5pm, or by appoinment

Interests

• Communicative Silence and Aposiopesis

• The Development of Botanical Latin

• Textual Emendations, New Philology, and Authenticity

Erin's background as a professional gardener, her work in academic libraries, and her degree in Rare Books & Manuscripts, all inform her current research.

Erin's dissertation concerns the development of Botanical Latin in the early 16th century and its connection to the printing history of Pliny's Historia Naturalis. Erin is also interested in the history of logic and notions of truth, and she is currently working on a project involving textual emendation and New Philology.

She also sometimes runs ultramarathons.