https://natalieelliot.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1520134935488-P23AVF718M97T8TPN3D9/IMG_3831.JPG natalieelliot.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1601697024866-UM51C6YC2NXLDVBNQTHZ/IMG_8950.jpg natalieelliot.com https://natalieelliot.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1602188216288-WT2TJJMC1QMARF35ZWBK/IMG_8950.jpg Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1602188216288-WT2TJJMC1QMARF35ZWBK/IMG_8950.jpg Contact https://natalieelliot.com/interviewsandpodcasts daily 0.75 2021-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1624224800953-REGW7UB4SX4UTX7AKN74/unsplash-image-ifKzOAW1QZI.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - Podcast—Alien Crash Site, Episode 014: On art, space, origins of life June 14, 2021 with Caitlin McShea at the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1609890415370-YUJ406VS11IPLJZ6SMQT/image.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - Podcast— Shakespeare Unlimited, Episode 158: Shakespeare, science, and art January 5, 2020 with Folger Shakespeare Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1596395740793-9SNQQYHGRJH5XSXIVW7F/image-asset.jpeg Podcasts and Interviews - Podcast—That Shakespeare Life, Episode 58: Shakespeare’s philosophy of science May 27, 2019 with Cassidy Cash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1521582370362-45ECGWV3W5W2P16U4ZC6/IMG_2901.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - An Interview at The Johnnie Chair: the student blog of St. John's College February 22, 2018 with Rowan Sinclair-Gregg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1521584313130-RSHJYQ9KYXIHFGE9KJJF/IMG_3919.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - Tutors Talk Books June 28, 2017 with Samantha Ardoin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1624224800953-REGW7UB4SX4UTX7AKN74/unsplash-image-ifKzOAW1QZI.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - Podcast—Alien Crash Site, Episode 014: On art, space, origins of life June 14, 2021 with Caitlin McShea at the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1609890415370-YUJ406VS11IPLJZ6SMQT/image.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - Podcast— Shakespeare Unlimited, Episode 158: Shakespeare, science, and art January 5, 2020 with Folger Shakespeare Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1596395740793-9SNQQYHGRJH5XSXIVW7F/image-asset.jpeg Podcasts and Interviews - Podcast—That Shakespeare Life, Episode 58: Shakespeare’s philosophy of science May 27, 2019 with Cassidy Cash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1521582370362-45ECGWV3W5W2P16U4ZC6/IMG_2901.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - An Interview at The Johnnie Chair: the student blog of St. John's College February 22, 2018 with Rowan Sinclair-Gregg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1521584313130-RSHJYQ9KYXIHFGE9KJJF/IMG_3919.jpg Podcasts and Interviews - Tutors Talk Books June 28, 2017 with Samantha Ardoin https://natalieelliot.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1596395947475-ZXLTQ8TIK6SJ1IWIKH7M/fullsizeoutput_1855.jpg About - Natalie Elliot Natalie Elliot is a storyteller, a science writer, and an academic. She has been awarded residencies and undertaken artistic collaborations with Fieldnotes (UK and US), Stinging Fly (IRE), DISQUIET International Literary Workshop (PORT), the Woodward Residency (NYC), the Santa Fe Institute (NM), and Pioneer Works (NYC). When she’s not writing, she teaches cross-disciplinary courses in classics, history of science, mathematics, literature, philosophy, and music at St. John’s College. In addition to her position on the faculty at St. John’s, Natalie has held research and teaching positions at The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University’s Hutton Honors College, Southern Methodist University, and Bard’s NYC-based Microcolleges. In 2020, she completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Montana. She divides her time between Brooklyn, NY and Santa Fe, NM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1596395947475-ZXLTQ8TIK6SJ1IWIKH7M/fullsizeoutput_1855.jpg About - Natalie Elliot Natalie Elliot is a storyteller, a science writer, and an academic. She has been awarded residencies and undertaken artistic collaborations with Fieldnotes (UK and US), Stinging Fly (IRE), DISQUIET International Literary Workshop (PORT), the Woodward Residency (NYC), the Santa Fe Institute (NM), and Pioneer Works (NYC). When she’s not writing, she teaches cross-disciplinary courses in classics, history of science, mathematics, literature, philosophy, and music at St. John’s College. In addition to her position on the faculty at St. John’s, Natalie has held research and teaching positions at The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University’s Hutton Honors College, Southern Methodist University, and Bard’s NYC-based Microcolleges. In 2020, she completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Montana. She divides her time between Brooklyn, NY and Santa Fe, NM. https://natalieelliot.com/events daily 0.75 2023-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/0ad3fdb5-0524-4563-a24d-c40bad6e2d8b/image-asset.jpg Talks - Rewilding: A Seminar Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, April 14, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1643579232349-1D00TW48SXAPGSM98HZN/unsplash-image-XsPy5fRYZOo.jpg Talks - Is a short story like a mathematical proof? YouTube Recording, Virtual, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, November 12, 2021, 4:45 MT/6:45 ET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1521670027975-IEHNHVLPU2N6QAEAU7EB/da-vinci-invention.jpg Talks - Leonardo da Vinci's Mechanical Imagination: A Workshop Albuquerque Natural History Museum, April 14, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/0ad3fdb5-0524-4563-a24d-c40bad6e2d8b/image-asset.jpg Talks - Rewilding: A Seminar Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, April 14, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4f7c197aeae9ffb23b51/1643579232349-1D00TW48SXAPGSM98HZN/unsplash-image-XsPy5fRYZOo.jpg Talks - Is a short story like a mathematical proof? 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