Prof. Erin Murphy, Ph.D.

Erin Murphy is Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests center on the intersection of literature and politics, with primary areas of focus in seventeenth-century English literature, and gender and sexuality studies more broadly. Murphy’s first book, Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century England (University of Delaware Press, 2011), investigated how writers from across the political spectrum explored the promise and the threats of using family as a means to stabilize politics. She is currently completing a book project, Wartimes: Seventeenth-Century English Women’s Writing, which deploys an inter-historical approach, reconsidering the writing of seventeenth-century women in relation to the English civil wars, as well as the ways in which this writing has been appropriated during other moments of war, including our own moment of global conflict.

Erin Murphy is at CAS upon the invitation of Dr. Nikolina Hatton (CAS Researcher in Residence/LMU) during the summer semester 2025.