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; Eighteenth-Century Life; LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory; and Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture. Her monograph, The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance, which is based on a sheaf of eighteenth-century letters housed at London's Society of Antiquaries, examines not only 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. During the 2010/2011 academic year, she served as the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at East Carolina University.