English Department
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Jillmarie Murphy

Job Title
William D. Williams Professor of English
Director of Interdisciplinary Studies
Karp Hall 104
Pronouns
she/her

Research interests

Human-Nonhuman Animal Studies; Attachment Theory & Loss Aversion; Neuroscience; Psychology; New Materialism

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)

(In-Progress Monographs)

  • The Neurobiology of 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)
  • State University of New York, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007)
  • 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 York