E-mail this pageEnglish Faculty - Dr. Anna Battigelli
Professor
Promoted to the rank of professor in 1999, Dr. Battigelli specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English literature. She is the author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
(1998), which was named a Choice Outstanding Title. She is now completing a book called John Dryden, Catholicism, and English National Identity: Religion and Politics in Resoration Literacy Culture. Her recent articles include works on the religious context of Restoration print culture, early modern science, and satire. She has been invited to lecture at Downside Abbey, Auburn University, Harvard's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Hamilton College, and the CUNY Graduate Center's eighteenth-century seminar. During the 2004-2005 academic year, she was a Carey Senior Fellow at Notre Dame University's Erasmus Institute. She won the State University's Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006. She will be a Visiting Professor of English at Boston University in spring 2008.
She frequently serves as a panel reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently, she is President of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She has served both as book review editor and as a member of the editorial board of 1650-1850: Ideas, Inquiries and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Era. She has also been invited to be an external reviewer for other colleges and universities for tenure, promotion, honors theses, and dissertation theses.
Dr. Battigelli contributes generously to the SUNY, Plattsburgh campus, mentoring new faculty within the humanities and directing the English Department's Honors and English Minor Programs. She is a devoted and highly acclaimed teacher.
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1987
- M.A., The University of Michigan, 1983
- B.A., The University of North Carolina, 1982
Research and Publications
- John Dryden, Catholicism, and English National Identity: Religion and Politics in Resoration Literacy Culture
- Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind: Dr. Battigelli became the first biographer to explore in-depth this mid-17th-century English writer's intellectual life. Read more about Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind
Awards
- The State University of New York's Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006
- Carey Senior Fellow, The Erasmus Institute, Notre Dame University, 2004-2005
- Long-term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library (one of four nationally), 2001-2002
- James Marshall Osborn Fellow, Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library, Yale University, 2002
- Two National Endowment for the Humanities (N.E.H.) Summer Stipends
- Selected to attend two N.E.H. Summer Institute/Seminars
- Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Fellowship.
Contact Anna Battigelli
Office: Champlain Valley Hall 217
Phone: (518) 564-2429
E-mail: battigaf@plattsburgh.edu"