Kathryn Temple, J.D., Ph.D. is the Curriculum Adviser for the English component of the College Preparatory Program and oversees the curriculum design and training of program staff.  Associate professor and chair of the Georgetown University English Department, she specializes in eighteenth-century British law, literature, and culture.  At Georgetown, she serves as first vice-chair of the Executive Faculty and as Writing Services Coordinator for the School of Continuing Studies.  Currently she is an elected representative on the MLA Division for Restoration and Eighteeth-Century Studies, the chair of the Macaulay Prize Committee for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and a consultant to the College Board on the issue of Advanced Placement standards for English literature.  Her current book project, Juridipoetics, takes up the relationship between poetics, affect, and political institutions, while her first book, Scandal Nation, investigated the public impact of law on texts and authorship.  She teaches eighteenth-centry literature and culture, women's literature, advanced prose writing, and law and cultural studies.  Originally from Urbana, Illinois, she received a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1981 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1994.  She has been at Georgetown since 1994.