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Huntsville, AL 35899

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Angela Balla

Assistant Professor
217 Morton Hall
(256)824-2378
angela.balla@uah.edu

 

Education:
PhD- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
MA - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
BA - University of Arizona

 

Areas of Specialization/Interests:
Early modern English poetry, especially Milton; religion and the history of toleration; intellectual history, particularly the evolution of evidence; political and ethical theory; early women writers; gender studies



Current Projects:
My current research examines the role of seventeenth-century religious poetry in the rise of toleration:
 
-“George and Edward Herbert’s Intertwined Paths Toward Toleration”

-“Desire, Possession, and Toleration in Donne’s "Satire 3" and the Holy Sonnets

I am also at work on a project that grew out of my graduate teaching: 

-“Satirizing the Absolute: Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of Sovereignty in The Blazing
World"

 

Publications:
"Wars of Evidence and Religious Toleration in Milton's Samson Agonistes," forthcoming in Milton Quarterly

"Baconian Investigation and Spiritual Standing in Herbert's The Temple," forthcoming in the George Herbert Journal

"Neighbourliness and Toleration in George Herbert's The Temple," forthcoming in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaisance et Reforme

 

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