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 the cultural significance of the enduring popular interest in such narratives and the strikingly consistent rhetoric surrounding them, especially in their portrayal of female victims and perpetrators. Dr. Berg’s work has appeared in Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation; Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (Parlor Press); Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Treachery, Betrayal, and Shame (Brill); Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary, and Historical Contexts (Boydell), and The Conversation.
Recent and upcoming course offerings include:
The History of the English Language
The Arthurian Tradition
Medieval Women’s Voices
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
The Secret Lives of Books
Introduction to Medieval Literature
Pulp Non-Fiction: Representations of Domestic Crime in Early Modern England
Monsters and Monstrosity