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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 2600

Critical Introduction to Literature, Spring 2025

ENGL 471R

Eminent Authors, Spring 2025

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing, Spring 2025

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing, Spring 2025

Presentations

Del Balzo, Angelina , The Global Jane Austen, "Scheherazade’s Head and the Ottoman World of Persuasion", University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. (July 11, 2025)
Del Balzo, Angelina , American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, "Staging Atlantic Slavery and the Ottoman Empire_ the Case of Oroonoko", American Comparative Literature Association, Online. (May, 2025)
Del Balzo, Angelina , Shakespeare Association of America and Renaissance Society of America Joint Annual Conference, "Aphra Behn Writing Racialized Royalty from the Mediterranean to the Americas", Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, MA. (March, 2025)
Del Balzo, Angelina , Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, "Ultra-orientalists and the Arabian Nights on the London Stage", Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs, CO. (February 15, 2025)
Del Balzo, Angelina , NT Live Screening_ Frankenstein (2012), "Frankenstein From Page to Stage", The Noorda Center, UVU, Orem, UT. (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://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11309281
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2024) "English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660–1800, ed. Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie" (Issue: 2, vol. 36). Eighteenth-Century Fiction. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.36.2.367
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2022) "The Archive and the Repertoire of the Treaty of Karlowitz" (vol. 51). Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2022) "Shakespeare’s Art of the Dervish_ Voltaire, Elizabeth Montagu, and National Sentiment" . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84005-1_5
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2019) "“The Feelings of Others”: Sympathy and Anti-Semitism in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington" (Issue: 4, vol. 31). Eighteenth-Century Fiction. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.31.4.685
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2018) "In Praise of Fiction_ Prefaces to Romances and Novels, 1650–1760 by Baudouin Millet" (Issue: 4, vol. 30). Eighteenth-Century Fiction. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.30.4.598