Anne Fernald

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) and the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021). She is co-editor of Modernism/modernity and one of the editors of The Norton Reader, a widely-used anthology of essays. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism.

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Composition and rhetoric; the essay; British modernism; twentieth-century anglophone literature; feminist literature, criticism, and theory; Virginia Woolf

Education

• Ph.D. Yale University (1988 — 1994)
• BA Wellesley College (1984 — 1988)
• diploma Garfield High School (1980 — 1984)

Books & editions

• Editor, The Cambridge Edition of Mrs. Dalloway. (Cambridge, 2014).
• Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave 2006).
• Co-editor, The Norton Reader, 13th edition, with Linda Peterson, John Brereton, Melissa Goldthwaite, and Joe Bizup. 2011. (14th edition in progress)

Selected Articles

• “Woolf and Intertextuality,” Virginia Woolf in Context. Susan Sellers and Jane Goldman, eds. Cambridge UP. 2012. 52-64.
• "Modernism and Tradition," Approaching Modernism, Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska, eds. A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. vol. 21. Antwerp: John Benjamins, 2007. 157-71.
• “Woolfian Resonances,” Blackwell Literature Compass. 4.1 (January 2007).
• "A Feminist Public Sphere? Virginia Woolf's Revisions of the Eighteenth Century," Feminist Studies. 31.1 (Spring 2005): 158-82.
• "Out of It: Alienation and Coercion in D. H. Lawrence," Modern Fiction Studies 49.2 (2003) 183-203
• “A Room of One’s Own, Personal Criticism, and the Essay,” Twentieth Century Literature. 40. 2 (Summer 1994): 165-89.