Dianne Berg

Visiting Assistant Professor, English

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

Scholarly and creative works

Awards and grants

  • Mini Grant

    Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities

    clock icon Mar. 19, 2025 – Apr. 1, 2025