Jillmarie Murphy
Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University at Albany, SUNY)
English and American Literature
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: Humanities 210C
Phone: 518.388.8796
E-mail: murphyj@union.edu
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Colonial through early twentieth-century American Literature, emphasizing Puritan poetics, the eighteenth-century novel, antebellum literature; Realism & Naturalism; nineteenth-century British Literature; and psychoanlaytic readings of gender and parenting in literature.
PUBLICATIONS
Monstrous Kinships: Realism & Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Novel. University of
Delaware Press (Currently Under Review at the University of Delaware Press, this study treats major novels by Mary Shelley, Melville, Hardy, Crane, Dreiser, and Nabokov).
"New England Poetry." Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature, ed. Kevin J. Hayes, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 115-41. With Ronald A. Bosco.
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, University of Iowa Press, 2007. Editor with Ronald A. Bosco.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Article, “Maternal Fathers or the Power of Sympathy: Phillis Wheatley’s Poem 'To His Excellency General Washington'” (in progress).
Essay for edited collection on Violent Women in Contemporary American Literature (due February, 2010).
Humanities Grant Project, “Neighborhood Attachment & Cultural Identity in Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s Sport of the Gods”.
TEACHING AWARDS
State University of New York, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
College Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Student Services Award for Teaching Excellence.