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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 with honors, Italian Studies

Teaching

ENGL 3640

British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, Fall 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Fall 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Fall 2026

ENGL 4790

Literary Studies Capstone, Fall 2026

HONR 2100G

Modern Legacies, Fall 2026

ENGL 3730R

Literature of Cultures and Places, Summer 2026

ENGL 2600

Critical Introduction to Literature, Spring 2026

ENGL 2010H

Intermediate Academic Writing, Spring 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Spring 2026

ENGL 4810R

Internship, Spring 2026

ENGL 3710

Literature by Women, Spring 2026

Presentations

Del Balzo, Angelina , Modern Language Association Annual Convention, "Amatory Fiction and Sexual Liberation_ Estranging the Past for Present Possibilities", Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA. (January, 2027)
Del Balzo, Angelina , Modern Language Association Annual Convention, "Teaching Manuscript Culture through the Perdita Database in the Women’s Literature Course", Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA. (January, 2027)
Del Balzo, Angelina , American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, "Revolutionary Ideals and Victorian Empire in George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple (1897)", American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, PA. (April, 2026)
Del Balzo, Angelina , Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, "Othello as Oriental She-Tragedy: Desdemona’s Whiteness on the Restoration Stage", Shakespeare Association of America, Denver, CO. (April, 2026)
Del Balzo, Angelina , Modern Language Association Annual Convention, "Ira Aldridge’s Revenge_ Ottoman Slavery, Abolition, and The Revolt of Surinam", Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON. (January, 2026)
Del Balzo, Angelina , Modern Language Association Annual Convention, "Palestine and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Cross-Cultural Encounters", Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON. (January, 2026)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Del Balzo, Angelina , "Cowley (née Parkhouse), Hannah" . Palgrave Macmillan.
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2025) "Review of Theatre on the American Frontier, by Thomas A. Bogar" (Issue: 2, vol. 45). Chapel Hill, NC: Journal of the Early Republic. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jer.2025.a963437
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2024) "Making Whiteness Visible_ Slavery and Oriental She-Tragedy in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko" (Issue: 3, vol. 48). Duke University Press. 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). Hamilton, ON: McMaster University. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.36.2.367
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2023) "Ashley L. Cohen. The Global Indies_ British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756–1815" (Issue: 1, vol. 62). Journal of British Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.191
Del Balzo, Angelina , (2022) "The Archive and the Repertoire of the Treaty of Karlowitz" (vol. 51). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Awards

Helene W. Koon Memorial Award, Second Prize

Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies - November 7, 2025

WSECS established this award as a tribute to the innovative scholarship, creative teaching, and generous spirit of Helene W. Koon, a scholar of eighteenth-century dramatic literature and professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. The WSECS Committee offers an award of $400 for the best paper presented at the annual conference by a graduate student, post doc, independent scholar, contingent or junior faculty member.