Anna Riehl Bertolet, Associate Professor, received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She specializes in early modern literature and culture, particularly Shakespeare and Elizabeth I. Dr. Bertolet's current book project, Written in Thread, explores needlework, literacy, and production of femininity in the 17th century England. Her other works in progress include co-editing A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, 1500-1650: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, to be published by Ashgate; and co-editing Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom, an essay collection on creative approaches to teaching medieval and early modern periods. Dr. Bertolet's research has received support from the American Association of University Women, University of Illinois at Chicago, Auburn University, and the English-Speaking Union.

Dr. Bertolet is a recipient of the Early Career Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, 2011. Her teaching interests lie at the intersection of early modern literature, visual culture, gender studies, material culture, history, and cultural studies and include undergraduate and graduate courses in Renaissance literature, as well as specialized courses on the body, drama, Elizabeth I, women writers, and visual culture in early modern England.

Dr. Anna Riehl Bertolet is also a Co-Director, with Dr. Craig Bertolet, of the AU Summer in London Program.