English
Wartimes: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing and Its Afterlives
Erin Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She specializes in seventeenth-century British literature and politics, as well as broader issues of gender, sexuality, and political theory. She is the author of Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (2011). She has also co-edited Milton Now: Alternative Approaches and Contexts (2014) with Catharine Gray, and a special issue of Criticism on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick with James Keith Vincent. She has published numerous essays in collections and articles in journals such as English Literary History, Studies in English Literature, and Milton Studies.
She is currently working on two book projects, Wartimes: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing and its Afterlives and Rude Reading: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the work of John Milton. As part of Northeastern University’s NEH-supported ‘Intertextual Networks’ project, she is developing a digital exhibit on biblical marginalia in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder with Chelsea Clark.
With Sarah Wall-Randall, she co-leads the interdisciplinary seminar on Women and Culture in the Early Modern World at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center. In 2017, she created the Boston University Public Humanities Undergraduate Fellows pilot program, which she ran until 2021. She has also won BU’s Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.