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Jillmarie Murphy is the William D. Williams Professor of Literature and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Union College in Schenectady, NY. She is a leading scholar at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and 19th-century American and transatlantic literature, with a focus on human-nonhuman animal studies, attachment theory, and environmental justice.
- Education:
- PhD in Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Studies (University at Albany, SUNY)
- M.A. in Medieval Studies (College of Saint Rose)
- Certificate in Neuroscience (University of Pennsylvania, in progress)
Her research explores how literary representations of place attachment and neuroscientific frameworks reshape understandings of race, gender, and class in American and British fiction. Recent work examines ecocritical approaches to transatlantic realism, material culture in post-revolutionary literature, and neuroplasticity in naturalist novels.
Her publications include four book series with Routledge/Taylor & Francis (2025), Gendered Ecologies (2020), and Attachment, Place, and Otherness (2018). These works synthesize attachment theory, neuroscience, and environmental studies to analyze Charles Brockden Brown, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Thomas Hardy. Current projects analyze neurobiological responses in early American seduction novels and consciousness in Celia Thaxter’s writing.
Scientific awards include the Stillman Prize for Research Excellence (2022), Thoreau Society Fellowships (2016), and University at Albany’s Distinguished Dissertation Award (2006). She serves on multiple interdisciplinary programs and has secured grants from institutions like Penn State University and the University of New England.
