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Dr. Bernice Murphy

Associate Professor (English)
ARTS BUILDING


  American literature   Gothic Fiction   Horror   Popular Literature   Suburbia   The American Gothic
 The California Gothic in Fiction and Film
 Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction
 The Highway Horror Film
 The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness,
 Lost Souls: Horror and the Gothic Genres Forgotten and Neglected Personages

Details Date
External examiner for a PhD thesis on Suburban Gothic at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. May 2022
External Examiner for PhD thesis on 'Agricultural Gothic' at Durham University. June 2023
External Examiner for PhD thesis on Shirley Jackson at the University of Montreal. December 2021
External Examiner for a PhD on Shirley Jackson at the University of Cardiff. January 2021
External Examiner for a PhD on the work of horror writer Thomas Ligotti at Manchester Metropolitan University. July 2019
External Examiner for PhD on American Popular Conspiracy Fiction at Stirling University, Scotland. November 2023
Details Date From Date To
Member of the International Gothic Association (IGA) 2006 Present
Member of the Irish Association of American Studies (IAAS) 2003 Present
American Serial Killers in, editor(s)Vivien Miller and James Campbell , The Routledge History of Crime in America, 2024, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, SUBMITTED
'Black Boxes: Tradition and Human Sacrifice in American Folk Horror' in, editor(s)Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt , Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2023, pp127 - 143, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy, The California Gothic in Fiction and Film, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 1 - 314pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, Twentieth-Century Gothic, Edinbugh, Edinbugh University Press, 2022, 1 - 324pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Folk Horror in, editor(s)Mark Storey and Stephen Shapiro , The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp139 - 153, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Going to Extremes: The Gothic in the Twentieth-Century' in, editor(s)Bernice Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhliann , Twentieth-Century Gothic, Edinburgh, 2022, pp1 - 12, [Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhliann], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'Masks of Sanity: Psychopathy and the Twentieth-Century Gothic' in, editor(s)Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhliann , Twentieth-Century Gothic, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp213 - 227, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Psychoanalysis and the Popular Gothic in, editor(s)Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend , The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp180 - 198, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Place, Space, and the Reconfiguration of "White Trash" Monstrosity in, editor(s)Dawn Keetley , Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2020, pp72 - 86, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's Domestic Humor in, editor(s)Jill Anderson and Melanie Anderson , Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond Hill House , New York, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp7 - 26, [Bernice M. Murphy], Notes: [This is a revised and updated version of an article first published in 2010 in the volume The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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'It is a Wonderful Pleasure to Write to You...' in, editor(s)Laurence J. Hyman , The Letters of Shirley Jackson, New York, Random Houuse, 2021, ppxvii - xxxii, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Bernice M.Murphy, 'Beyond Midsommar: Folk Horror in Popular Fiction', 2019, -, Notes: [https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/beyond-midsommar-folk-horror-in-popular-fiction-1.3963971], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy, 'Not a Place Fit for People: Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House', The Irish Times, (November 10th), 2018, Review Article, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy, Death on the Roads: Defining the Highway Horror Film, 2017, -, Notes: [http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/tag/highway-horror-film/], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy , 'The Last Broadcast: Christine and Carnival of Souls', Review of Christine (2016), Horror Homeroom, 2017, Notes: [http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/tag/christine/], Review, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy, 'Girl Trouble: The Blackcoat's Daughter', Review of The Blackcoat's Daughter, Horror Homeroom, 2017, Notes: [http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/tag/the-blackcoats-daughter/], Review, PUBLISHED
Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others , Bernice M. Murphy and Elizabeth McCarthy (Editors), 1st, North Carolina, McFarland, 2016, 1 - 248pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy, ''Short, Sharp Shocks'', The Stinging Fly Winter 2016-17: Fear and Fantasy Issue, Ireland, 2016, 86 - 89, Notes: [Nonfiction Piece ], Fiction and creative prose, PUBLISHED
'You Mean they Ate Each Other Up?' The Shining as Wendigo Narrative. in, editor(s)Danel Olson , The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film, Centipede Press, 2015, [Bernice M. Murphy], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Bernice M. Murphy, "The Suburban Gothic in CInema: Top 10", 2015, -, Notes: [http://www.moviegeek.eu/the-suburban-gothic-in-cinema-top-10.html], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  

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Award Date
Elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin April 2017
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship October 2006
Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund, €2,000 awarded towards research costs for 'California Gothic' January 2018
Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund, €3,000 awarded towards research costs for 'The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture' ' January 2010
Provost's PhD Project Award November 2018
Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Fellowship (declined in favour of IRCHSS fellowship) May 2006
Trinity College Postgraduate Award 2002, 2003.