Andrew Ball

Dr. Andrew Ball is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in American literature and culture, continental philosophy, and media studies. His work focuses on matters of ethics, religion, gender, class, politics, and the interface of art and science. His recent 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 forthcoming volume, The Early Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890-1894 (University of Alabama Press), a recovery project that will shed new light on the social philosophy of one of America’s foremost first-wave feminists. Dr. Ball is also the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology (Berghahn). His scholarship has appeared in Philosophy and Literature, Religion & Literature, American Literary Realism, Studies 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 American Religion and Literature Society.