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Erin Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Boston University. Her research focuses on the intersection of literature and politics, with expertise in 17th-century English literature and gender/sexuality studies. She has authored Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century England (2011) and is completing a book project on Wartimes: Seventeenth-Century English Women’s Writing. She co-edited Milton Now (2014) and contributed to special issues on Eve Sedgwick’s work. Her teaching spans English literature, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs, and the Core Curriculum. She founded the BU Public Humanities Fellowship program (2017–2020), fostering undergraduate engagement with community-oriented humanities careers.
Her awards include the David Kalstone Memorial Award (2007), Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching (2016), and NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor (2017–2020). Her research integrates queer theory and feminist approaches, examining themes like genealogy, militarization of the body, and early modern women’s writing. She collaborates on digital projects, such as an exhibit on Lucy Hutchinson’s marginalia for the Women Writers Project.
