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Mary Helen McMurran is an Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in English at the Department of English and Writing Studies, Western University. She specializes in eighteenth-century literature, with a focus on the intersection of lyric poetry, philosophy, and theories of mind and soul. Her research examines the evolution of the novel through translation culture and the emergence of prose fiction.
- Education
- Ph.D., New York University
- M.A., New York University
- B.A., St. John's College
Her scholarly work has been published in journals such as ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. She has held prestigious grants and fellowships, including SSHRC Insight Grants and awards from the Huntington Library and Clark Memorial Library.
- Scientific Awards & Fellowships
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant
- SSHRC Insight Grant
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago
- NEH Fellowship at the Huntington Library
- Short-term Fellowships at the Huntington Library and Clark Memorial Library
At Western University, McMurran teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics ranging from Jane Austen to Eighteenth-Century Theories of Mind and Soul. She is currently researching the concept of the embodied soul in early eighteenth-century lyric poetry and philosophy.
