Gretchen Murphy

Interests

Biography

Gretchen Murphy is an Associate Professor in the English Department. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Washington in 1999. Her research Interests include: U.S. Literature and culture to 1914, nationalism and imperialism, and sentimental and domestic writing.

Recent Publications:

Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

“How the Irish Became Japanese: Winnifred Eaton and Racial Reconstruction in a Transnational Context.” Forthcoming in American Literature, March 2006.

“The New Woman and the New Pacific: Winnifred Eaton and U.S. Empire.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 29 (2005): 395-418.

“Symzonia, Typee, and the Dream of U.S. Global Isolation.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 43:3 (2003): 1-35.

“’A home which is still not a home’: Finding a Place for Ranald MacDonald.” ATQ: Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture 15:3 (2001): 225-244.

“Enslaved Bodies: Figurative Slavery in the Temperance Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman.” Genre 28:1 (1995): 95-118.