Dianne Berg

Dianne Berg specializes in late medieval and early modern English literature. Her research focuses on representations of domestic violence and the literary appropriation of real-life scandals to address contemporary anxieties about treason, obedience, gender, religion, and the state.

Professor Berg’s work has appeared in Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation; Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (Parlour Press); Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Treachery, Betrayal, and Shame (Brill); and Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary, and Historical Contexts (Boydell). Recent course offerings at Clark University include “Medieval Women's Voices,” “The Arthurian Tradition,” "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"; "The Secret Life of Books," and "Pulp Non-Fiction: Representations of Domestic Crime in Early Modern England."