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Anna Battigelli
Visiting Professor; Education: B.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Teaching/Research Interests: 17 th- and 18 th-century English literature; religion and literature; early modern science
Scholarly Publications: Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (University Press of Kentucky, 1998); "'Tis the Press that has Made 'um Mad': Titus Oates's Plot, Anti-Catholicism, and Print Culture," in Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution, (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004), 147-160; "Resisting the New Science: Anne Conway, Henry More, and the Problem of Pain," in Science and the Imagination in Early Modern England, (AMS Press, 2004), 223-242; "Dryden’s Angry Readers," in An Anatomy of Readers, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 261-281; "The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft: Biographical Facts and Problems," Biography and Source Studies, 6 (2001): 61-77; "'To Conclude Aright Within Ourselves': Narcissus Luttrell and the Burden of the Protestant Reader, 1678-88," in The Reader Revealed, (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001), 75-84; "Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes," in Women Writers and the Early Modern Political Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1998), 40-55; "Virginia Woolf's Wild Goose Chase: Orlando as Biographical Criticism," Biography and Source Studies 4 (1998): 41-56; "Nature, Time, and Translation: Dryden's 'To the Memory of Mr. Oldham' and the Poetic Tradition," Restoration 14 (Spring 1990): 22-32.
Work in Progress: "John Dryden, Catholicism, and English National Identity: Religion and
Politics in Restoration Literary Culture"
Honors/Grants/Awards: State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006; Carey Senior Fellow, Notre Dame University's Erasmus Institute, 2004-2005; Fellow, Beinecke Library, 2002; Long-Term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001-2002;
Other Professional Activities : President, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Panelist, NEH Summer Stipends Program; Book Review Editor, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 1996-2002.