Ben Murphy
Assistant Teaching Professor of English
Department: English
Email: bmurphy24@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5623
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Education
Ph.D., English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Humanities & Creative Writing, Houghton College
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
"Race, Crowds, and Resistance in Lovecraft’s Country: From Poe’s Old Old Weird to Victor LaValle’s New Black Gothic" Studies in American Fiction (Forthcoming: Fall 2025)
“‘Multiplied without Number:’ Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois.” American Literature 93.2 (2021): 195-226
“Not So New Materialism: Homeostasis Revisited.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 27.1 (2019): 1-36
"Exceptional Infidelity: James Dickey’s Deliverance, Film Adaptation, and the Postsouthern.” Mississippi Quarterly 69.2 (2018): 206-225
Recent Book Reviews:
Of Black Study by Joshua Myers (Pluto Press) Full Stop
Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier (Tin House) Full Stop
In the Black Fantastic ed. by Ekow Eshun (MIT Press) Full Stop
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (NYRB) Full Stop