{"id":7954,"date":"2020-09-03T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/?post_type=profile&p=7954"},"modified":"2024-06-18T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T21:30:04","slug":"erin-murphy","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wgs\/profile\/erin-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My research and teaching interests center on the intersection of literature and politics, with primary areas of focus in seventeenth-century English literature, and gender and sexuality studies more broadly. My first book, Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century England<\/em>, investigated how writers from across the political spectrum explored the promise and the threats of using family as a means to stabilize politics. Moving beyond the much-discussed patriarchal analogy, this study drew on feminist and queer theory to illuminate the temporal stakes of family politics, giving particular attention to the explicit and implicit debates over genealogy as a literary and governmental form. I am completing a book project, Wartimes: Seventeenth-Century English Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>, which deploys an inter-historical approach, reconsidering the writing of seventeenth-century women in relation to the English civil wars, as well as the ways that this writing has been appropriated during other moments of war, including our own moment of global conflict. I have also co-edited a collection of interdisciplinary and theoretical essays entitled Milton Now, which expands discussions of Milton beyond the dominant historicist paradigm while simultaneously engaging wider questions about the current state of literary studies. My work in sexuality studies includes the co-editing of a special issue of Criticism<\/em> on the work of Eve Sedgwick. I have also published a suite of essays on Milton and queer studies, including the forthcoming, \u201cWho is listening?: Alice Egerton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle<\/em>, and Queer Erotics,\u201d and have begun work on a new monograph, provisionally titled Rude Reading: Queer Feminism and Seventeenth-Century English Literature.<\/em> In addition to offering undergraduate and graduate classes in English, I teach both the undergraduate class WS 101 and the theories and methods graduate seminar in the Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, as well as CC201 in the Core Curriculum.<\/p>\n

I have always been interested in the role of the humanities beyond academia.\u00a0 From 2017 to 2020, I created and ran the BU Public Humanities Fellowship program, which placed a select group of undergraduates in summer internships, creating a cohort of students who together explored how their humanities educations could lead them to rewarding careers that would contribute to both local and global communities.<\/p>\n

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