Dianne Berg specializes in late medieval and early modern English literature. Her research focuses on literary representations of true crime and domestic violence, and how disruptions within the family threaten gendered political ideologies equating a “healthy” home with an embodied, thriving state. Her book project, Pulp Non-Fiction: True Crime and Fake News in Early Modern England, explores…

Professor Levin specializes in contemporary British and postcolonial literature, transnational cultural studies, and critical and literary theory. His research focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century global conditions have shaped contemporary culture and produced new discourses of self and identity. In his recent book, The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era…