Anne Fertig
Doctoral Candidate in English and Comparative Literature
American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellow 2021-2022
About Me
As a scholar and as a public humanist, I aspire to amplify silenced histories and create bridges between university and community audiences. To these ends, I have launched over forty events, including virtual and in-person lectures, storytelling circles, archival exhibits, digital galleries, and literary symposia. As a scholar, my research centers around questions of historiography, women's sovereignty, queenship, and the history of novel.
My work in the public humanities pulls from my interests in historiography, historical fiction, and the public reception of historical ideas. I question not only how history has been written but how we continue to interpret history both inside and outside of the academy.
Education
August 2015- May 2022 (anticipated)
PhD in English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
August 2014-December 2015
Masters of Philosophy in English Literature
University of Glasgow
August 2014-December 2015
Masters of Literature in Scottish History
University of Glasgow
August 2009-May 2013
Bachelors of Arts in English Literature
Rollins College
Publications
Books
‘A Song of Glasgow Town’: the Collected Works of Marion Bernstein. Co-edited with Edward H. Cohen and Linda Fleming, (Association of Scottish Literary Studies: Glasgow, 2013).
Refereed Articles
“A Marion Bernstein Manuscript.” co-written with Edward H. Cohen, Review of Scottish Culture 28 (2016): 1-6.
“A Curious Exchange between Marion Bernstein and Mary Inglis,” co-written with Edward H. Cohen, Studies in Scottish Literature 41 (2016): 267-276.
“Marion Bernstein and the Glasgow Weekly Mail in the 1870s,” co-written with Edward H. Cohen, Victorian Periodical Review 49.1 (2016): 9-27.
Book Chapters
“Marion Bernstein,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. David Cannadine. (Forthcoming).
“Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program,” co-written with Inger Sigrun Brodey and Sarah Walton, The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, eds. Cheryl A. Wilson and Maria H. Frawley. (Routledge: 2021)
“Castle Howard”; “Conirdan”; “Julius Fitz-John,” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820 (Forthcoming).
“’Ancient, Hardy, Pugnacious, and Poor’: Margaret Oliphant’s Form and Conformation in ‘Scottish National Character’ and Kirsteen.” The Essay: Forms and Transformations. Eds. Dorothea Flothow, Tanja Deinhamer, and Markus Oppolzer. (Heidelberg: 2017)
Other Publications
Review, Classical Caledonia: Roman History and Myth in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Newsletter (Summer 2021)
“Genre, Authorship, & Fluidity in Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.” Literary Archaeologies: Print to Digital, 2016.
“Agitation and Emigration in the Highland Press in the 1880s,” Argyll Colony Plus: The Journal of the North Carolina Scottish Heritage Society, 31.3 (Fall/Winter 2017): 129-140.
Public Humanities
Roles and Positions
Jane Austen & Co.
Founder | Co-Director
Lecture series about Jane Austen and her broader culture context. Events attract audiences of up to 400 people from around the world. We have hosted over thirty events in three series. In addition to inviting scholars and hosting talks, I direct administration of program, including grant writing, website management, budgeting, social media marketing, and event registration.
Jane Austen Summer Program
Treasurer
The Jane Austen Summer Program is an annual symposium focusing on the life and works of Jane Austen. I have served this award-winning non-profit public humanities program since 2015, and I now sit as the treasurer of the board.
UNC Inaugural Scottish Gaelic Lectureship
Programming Coordinator
To support the lectureship's endeavors in fundraising and community engagement, I organized lectures with scholars and community leaders. Our most successful lecture, which I coordinated, attracted 115 community guests. I also collaborated with Ayr Mount Historic Site, Carolina Performing Arts, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill.
Portfolio
Doctor Syntax and the Picturesque
An early digital editing project, I co-developed this online critical edition of The Tour of Doctor Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque. This critical edition remains one of the only modern editions of Doctor Syntax, and it is entirely free for public audiences. I co-wrote the critical essays and coded half of the poems according to the Text Encoding Intitative (TEI).
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