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Andrew Ball

Adjunct Faculty - First Year Writing

School

School of Medical Imaging and Therapeutics

Department

School of Arts and Sciences

About

Dr. Andrew Ball is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in American literature, continental philosophy, media studies, and health humanities. His work focuses on matters of religion, gender, class, and the interface of art and science. His book, The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines how material conditions influence religious ritual and concepts of the sacred, as well as the function of art and the symbolic in that process.

Andrew is the editor of The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890-1894 (University of Alabama Press, 2024), a recovery project that sheds new light on the social philosophy of one of America’s foremost first-wave feminists. Dr. Ball is also the editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology (Berghahn), and co-editor of the anthology Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in American Popular Media: Who Was That Masked Woman? (Routledge, 2025).

His scholarship has appeared in Philosophy and LiteratureReligion & LiteratureAmerican Literary RealismStudies in American Fiction, the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Parrhesia, and Soundings, among other publications. He is a co-founder of the North American Levinas Society and President of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society and the William Dean Howells Society.