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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; 17th-century politics and political theory; history of sexuality; gender studies. 
Selected Publications: Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (University of Delaware Press, forthcoming); “Paradise Lost and the Politics of Begetting,” Milton Quarterly (forthcoming); “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 2009); “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: Wartimes:  Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing and its Afterlives (book project); “WarTimes: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing and its Afterlives” in Rethinking Historicism, eds. Ann Coiro and Thomas Fulton (collection in process).
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).