Temma F. Berg

Temma Berg received her Ph.D. from Temple University. Editor of Engendering the Word: Feminist Essays in Psychosexual Poetics, her articles on reader-response criticism, deconstruction, and women writers have appeared in Papers in Language and Literature, Studies in the Novel, Criticism, and Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture. She has just published a study of a sheaf of eighteenth-century letters she found at London's Society of Antiquaries. Entitled The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Her Acquaintance, this "found novel" not only blurs the border between fact and fiction but also gives us intimate glimpses of female friendship, intellectual women, sentimental coquettes, and companionate marriage in the eighteenth century. Her courses often focus on women writers, questions of gender and sexuality, the different perspectives made possible by different theoretical frameworks, and the intricacies of archival investigation.