Justine S. Murison
Assistant Professor of English
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2006; M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000; B.A., American University, 1997
Courses
Slavery and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (397); The American Novel to 1914 (250); Madness in Antebellum America (475); American Literature, 1820-1865 (449); Major Authors: Edgar Allan Poe (455); Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (300)
Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Early American Literature; Medicine and Literature; Religion and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; History of the Novel
Publications
Journal Articles
- "The Tyranny of Sleep: Somnambulism, Moral Citizenship, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly." Early American Literature 44.2 (2009): 243-270.
- "Hypochondria and Racial Interiority in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee." Arizona Quarterly 64.1 (2008): 1-26.
- Donohue, Joseph , and Justine Murison. "The Princeton Scenario of Oscar Wilde’s The Cardinal of Avignon." Princeton University Library Chronicle LXII.1 (2000): 108-121.
Reviews
- "Performing Criticism in Early America." Rev. of Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation (2010):
Works in Progress
- States of Mind: Anxiety, Affective Politics, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (book manuscript); "Political Indifference and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Chiefly About War-Matters'" (journal article)
