Anne Fertig
Public Humanist | Digital Historian | Book Scholar
Digital Projects Editor, George Washington Presidential Library
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 fifty public programs, 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 the book.
Public Humanities
Roles and Positions
George Washington Presidential Library
Digital Projects Editor
Lead producer for the George Washington Podcast Network and editor of the Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington. My projects include transcription projects, livestreaming, and other digital history initiatives.
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 forty events in five series.
Jane Austen Summer Program
Treasurer
The Jane Austen Summer Program is an annual symposium focusing on the life and works of Jane Austen.
UNC Inaugural Scottish Gaelic Lectureship
Programming Coordinator
To support the lectureship's endeavors in fundraising and community engagement, I organized lectures, exhibits, ceilidhs, and a community luncheon in collaboration with Ayr Mount Historic Site, Carolina Performing Arts, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill.
Education
August 2015- May 2022
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
Portfolio
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. (2023).
“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.
