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Angelina Del Balzo

Faculty Member

Dr. Angelina Del Balzo

Biography

Angelina Del Balzo is an Assistant Professor of English at Utah Valley University, specializing in British literature of the long eighteenth century. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Humanities at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey. Her research focuses on drama and performance studies, imperialism and the development of race and gender, and adaptation theory. Her work has been published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Life, and SEL, and has been supported by grants from the Lewis Walpole Library, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Library, the Université de François Rabelais de Tours, and McGill University. Her current project is on eighteenth-century theatrical adaptations and depictions of the Ottoman Empire. Her teaching interests include feminist and inclusive pedagogy, adaptation as critical practice, and multimodal composition. In addition to her academic work, she has served as script reader and dramaturg with the theater at Boston Court Pasadena in California.

Education

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019

Major: English

Candidate of Philosophy (C.Phil.), University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

Major: English

MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

Major: English

BA, Wellesley College, 2011

Major: English, Italian Studies

Teaching

ENGL 3640

British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, Fall 2024

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Fall 2024

ENGL 270G

Positionality and Interpretive Methods GI, Fall 2024

Presentations

Del Balzo, Angelina , Array, "Array", Array, Array. (October 10, 2024)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Del Balzo, Angelina , (2024) "Making Whiteness Visible_ Slavery and Oriental She-Tragedy in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko" (Issue: 3, vol. 48). Eighteenth-Century Life. https://read.dukeupress.edu/eighteenth-century-life/article-abstract/48/3/7/390379/Making-Whiteness-Visible-Slavery-and-Oriental-She?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2022) "The Archive and the Repertoire of the Treaty of Karlowitz" (vol. 51). Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2019) "“The Feelings of Others: Sympathy and Anti-Semitism in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington" (Issue: 4, vol. 31). Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2015) "The Sultan’s Tears in Zara, an Oriental Tragedy" (Issue: 3, vol. 55). SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.