Erin Murphy
ermurphy@bu.edu

Assistant Professor. B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University 

Teaching and Research Interests : Renaissance and Restoration literature and culture; Milton; early modern women writers; Seventeenth-Century politics and political theory; history of sexuality; gender studies 

Selected Publications : “Infectious Knowledge: Teaching John Milton’s Of Education and Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies,” in Teaching Early Modern Prose, eds. Margaret Ferguson and Susannah Monta (Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2007). ; "Milton's 'Birth Abortive': Remaking Family at the End of Paradise Lost," Milton Studies 43 (2004); "Mary Astell," in The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors, ed. Alan Hager (2004)

Work in Progress : Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (book project); Wartimes: Seventeenth Century Women’s Writing and its Afterlives (book project)

Honors, Grants, and Awards: David L. Kalstone Memorial Fund Award (2007); Boston University Humanities Foundation Fellowship (2005-6); Folger Institute Grant-in-aid (2001); Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Fellowship (1999-2000)