Jessica C. Murphy
PhD Expected June, 2009, English, University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A., Philosophy, Hunter College, City University
of New York, 2001
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
email: jcmurphy@umail.ucsb.edu
Areas of Interest
- English Renaissance Literature/Drama
- Early Modern Conduct Literature for Women
- Feminist Theory
- Digital Humanities
- Medieval Literature
Current Projects and Publications
Dissertation Title: "Pushing through Paradox: Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England"
Work in Progress:- "Sex Salves: Sick Virgins in Early Modern English Literature"
- "'Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon': Advice to Ophelia in Hamlet"
- “‘Of the sicke virgin’: Britomart, Greensickness, and the Man in the Mirror,” forthcoming from Spenser Studies.
- "Conduct and Crossdressing: Performing Gender and the Threat of Violence." (co-authored with Simone Chess) Attending to Early Modern Women. Ed. Adele Seeff. Newark: University of Delaware Press, date TBA.
- Rev. of Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practice, ed. Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, and Philippa Kelly. BIOGRAPHY 30.4 (Fall 2007).
- "Ballad Creation and Circulation: Congers and Mongers" (co-authored with Kris McAbee) Forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection. ed. Patricia Fumerton. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, date TBA.
- Essays on the Pepysian ballad categories "Love Unfortunate" and "Marrriage, Cuckoldry, etc.," together with the selection of ballads for each category, forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, date TBA.
- "Love Unfortunate." Early Modern Center English Ballad Archive. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. July 2005. University of California Santa Barbara.
- Rev. of Conduct Literature for Women, 1640-1710, ed. William St. Clair and Irmgard Maassen. Early Modern Center Bookshelf. 23 March 2003. University of California Santa Barbara.
- "Printing Practices." (co-authored with Kris McAbee) Early Modern Center English Ballad Archive. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. March 2003. University of California Santa Barbara.
- "Marriage, Cuckholdry, &c." Early Modern Center English Ballad Archive. Ed. Patricia Fumerton. March 2003. University of California Santa Barbara.
- "'A Remedy for the Greensickness': Popular Literature and Female Sexuality," Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 7 February 2009.
- “Visualizing the ‘Advice to the Ladies of London’: A Digital Humanities Approach to Early Modern Gender,” E-Criticism: New Critical Methods and Modalities, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 27-30 December 2008.
- Co-organizer and Chair of "Reconsidering Early Modern Women's Chastity, Silence, and Obedience I." Northeast Modern Language Association, 10-13 April 2008.
- "'Advice to the Ladies of London': Broadside Ballads and Feminine Virtue." Northeast Modern Language Association, 10-13 April 2008.
- "'Beneath thy heavenly show': Seeming Chaste in The Tragedy of Mariam." Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association, 2-3 November 2007.
- "Conduct and Crossdressing: Performing Gender and the Threat of Violence." Workshop, Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men, University of Maryland, 11 November 2006.
- "'Girl, you'll be a woman soon': Ophelia's Counselors in Hamlet." SCMLA, Dallas, TX, 27 October 2006.
- Respondent, Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium, UCSB, November 2005.
- "Making Hamlet New in the Writing Classroom." RMMLA Convention, Tucson, AZ, October 12-14, 2006
- "The Absent Victim(s) in The Wife of Bath's Tale and Chaucer's Struggle." Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, UCSB, 17 April 2004.
- "Paulina's 'Counter-Magic' in The Winter's Tale." GEMCS Conference, Newport Beach, CA, October 2003.
Teaching Experience
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, English 105A: Shakespeare Early Poems and Plays, Spring 2007.
Guest Lectures: "Taming? of the Shrew?" 12 April 2007; "Women in Hamlet" 5 June 2007.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Associate, English 10EM: "The 'Ideal' Woman" in Early Modern English Literature, Winter 2007.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, English 101: English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, Fall 2006.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Associate, English 193: Detective Fiction, Summer 2006.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Associate, English 10, Summer 2005.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, Writing 2, Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, English 193: Detective Fiction, Spring 2004.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, English 152A: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Winter 2004.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Teaching Assistant, English 101: English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, Fall 2003.