Participant Info
- First Name
- Hannah
- Last Name
- Murray
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- hannah.murray@liverpool.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Liverpool
- Website URL
- https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/staff/hannah-murray/
- Keywords
- Early American Literature, Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture, Critical Race Studies in American Literature and Culture, Utopias in Nineteenth Century America
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
After studying for my BA in English Language and Literature (Leeds) and my MA in American Literature and Culture (Leeds), I received my PhD in American Studies from the University of Nottingham in 2017. Before joining Liverpool in 2019 I was Teaching Fellow in Early American Studies at King’s College London.
My research interests centre on race and citizenship in nineteenth-century American literature, with a specific focus on speculative genres (the gothic, horror, science fiction, utopia/dystopia). My first book “Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction” (Edinburgh UP) examines representations of white anxiety in US fiction before the civil war.
- Recent Publications
‘Critical Whiteness Studies and Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Literature’, English, 70:271 (2021)
Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
‘Reading Utopia in 2020’, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 61: Summer Issue (2020)
‘Brown Studies Now and in Transition’, The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown ed. by Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmett, Stephen Shapiro (Oxford University Press, 2019)
‘“I say to you I am dead!”: Medical Experiment and the Limits of Personhood in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”’, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 16 (2017)
- Media Coverage
- Why Hasn't Harriet Wilson, the First Black Female Novelist, Been Given Her Due?, Invited (Zora - A Medium Publication for Women of Colour, 2019)
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Colonialism, Literary History, Race, Slavery
