Kathryn D Temple

Kathryn Temple, J.D., Ph.D., is a professor of law and humanities, and former chair of the Department of English at Georgetown University where she has taught since 1994. Her most recent book, Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England (NYU Press, 2019), examines how affect undergirds our understanding of Anglo-American legal institutions. The recipient of NEH, ACLS, Mellon and ARC fellowships, she has published essays in such venues as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Theory and Interpretation and Law, Culture and the Humanities. In recent years she has developed a number of initiatives meant to reinvent the humanities as the principal investigator for the Mellon-funded grant, Connected Academics at Georgetown. She is the founding Director of Georgetown’s new Master’s degree in Engaged & Public Humanities.