Jillmarie Murphy
Job Title
William D. Williams Professor of English
Director of Interdisciplinary Studies
Pronouns
she/her
Research interests
Human-Nonhuman Animal Studies; Attachment Theory & Loss Aversion; Neuroscience & Literature; Psychology; Material Culture Studies
Teaching interests
Kindness & Compassion; Race, Class, Gender, & Ethnicity; Literature of the Circum-Atlantic Revolutionary Period; Literary Realism & Naturalism; Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Trans-Atlantic Fiction
Publications
Books
- Women and the Environment of War, Vol. I, Women and the Environment in the Long-Nineteenth Century (1775-1925), Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2025.
- Creative Entanglements, Vol. II, Women and the Environment in the Long-Nineteenth Century (1775-1925), Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2025.
- Environments of Precarity—Social Justice & Marginalization, Vol. III, Women and the Environment in the Long-Nineteenth Century (1775-1925), Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2025.
- The Natural Sciences, Vol. IV, Women and the Environment in the Long-Nineteenth Century (1775-1925), Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming, 2025.
- Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century, with Dewey W. Hall (Clemson University Press, 2020).
- Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations (Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2018, reprinted 2020).
- Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Delaware Press, 2011).
- Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections,Interviews, and Memoirs by His Family, Friends, and Associates, with Ronald A. Bosco. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008).
In-Progress Monographs
- Anthrozoology: Human-Nonhuman Animal Attachments (HNAA) in Trans-Atlantic Literary Naturalism.
- Loss Aversion, Neuroplasticity, and Place Precarity in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- “Analeptic Sublime: Recuperative Forces in Joel Tyler Headley’s Adirondack; or Life in the Woods (1849),” in Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies(AJES) 22 (Spring 2018).
- “The Humming Bird; or Herald of Taste (1798): Periodical Culture and Female Editorship in the Early American Republic,” in American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism (Spring 2016): 44-69.
- “Maternal Fathers; or, the Power of Sympathy: Phillis Wheatley’s Poem to “His Excellency General Washington.’” Literature in the Early American Republic(LEAR) 6 (2014).
- “Chains of Emancipation: Place Attachment and the Great Northern Migration in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sport of the Gods,” Studies in American Naturalism 8.2 (winter 2013)
In-Progress Journal Article
- “The Neurobiology of Romantic Reponses & Sexual Function in the Early American Seduction Novel”
Book Chapters
- "Beyond the Binary: Transforming Ecologies in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours and Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isles of Shoals,” in Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Eds. Jillmarie Murphy & Dewey W. Hall, Clemson University Press, 2020, 139-155.
- “The Politics of Place Attachment and the Laboring Body in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” in Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice. Ed. Dewey Hall, Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield Books, (2017).
- “Emerson as a National Icon,” in Emerson in Context, edited by Wesley T. Mott, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- “New England Poetry,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature, edited by Kevin J. Hayes, Oxford University Press, 2008, with Ronald A. Bosco.
Book Review
- Ashley Barnes, Love and Depth in the American Novel: From Stowe to James, in Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, vol. 47, no. 1, 2021.
Additional media
Distinctions
- Stillman Prize for Faculty Excellence in Research (2022)
- Maine Women Writers Collection Research Grant, University of New England (2017)
- Byron A. Nichols Endowed Fellowship for Faculty Development (2016-2018)
- Helen F. Faust Women Writers Research Travel Award, Eberly Family Special Collections, Penn State University (2016)
- Thoreau Society Short-Term Research Fellowship (2016)
- Faculty Member of the Year, Union College Greek Award (2015)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor (2012-2013)
- University at Albany Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (2006)
Academic credentials
B.A., College of Saint Rose; M.A., College of Saint Rose; Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New YorkKarp Hall 115
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