A Black Punctum: Poetic Restorations of Black Archives in the United States, 1940-2010
Fallon Murphy’s dissertation charts how African American writers, such as Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and members of the Cambridge-based Dark Room Collective, sought, preserved, and reimagined institutional archives and its absences as poetic and rhetorical strategies.
She has a chapter forthcoming in the book Faulknerian Anniversaries (2026), published by the University of Mississippi Press, and has published or will publish in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Reviews in Digital Humanities, The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, and Boston Art Review.
Outside of teaching and researching, Fallon enjoys collaborating with many digital humanists on pedagogical projects. Her work in the digital humanities is recognized by the MLA’s Public Humanities Incubator program in 2022. Currently, she is a Showcase Editor for the NEH-funded feminist digital humanities project “Recovery Hub for American Women Writers” and an Editorial Fellow for the digital humanities project “Sharing Our Stories from 1977.” She is a Digital Content Editor for the open-access digital publication “Insurrect!: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies,” which centers on Black and Indigenous liberation frameworks in American Studies.
When not teaching or researching, Fallon enjoys taking very long walks, cooking elaborate meals, and spending time with her family