Dr. Sharon Murphy is Assistant Professor in the School of English, and was Research Convenor of the School between 2021 and 2022. Dr. Murphy was previously Chairperson of the Master's programme in Children's and Young Adult Literature from the establishment of the School in 2016 until 2019; prior to that, she was Director of the Master's programme in Children's Literature in St. Patrick's College (from 2014). She is the author of The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Maria Edgeworth and Romance (Four Courts Press, 2004). She has also published in Children’s Literature, Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, The Lion and the Unicorn, Book History, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in essay collections. She completed her PhD on the works of Maria Edgeworth in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and her Master of Arts Degree (Research; First Class Honours) in Modern English and American Literature in the Department of English UCD.
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Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sharon Murphy (2016) Review of John Countryman and Kelly Matthews eds., The Country of the Young: Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in Irish Culture in The Irish Literary Supplement. BREV | |
| 2010 | Sharon Murphy (2010) Review of Susan B. Egenolf, The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson in Review of English Studies. BREV [DOI] | |
| 2005 | Sharon Murphy (2005) Review of Clare O’Halloran, Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations: Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Politics in Ireland, c. 1750-1800 in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. BREV | |
| 2003 | Sharon Murphy (2003) Review of Paul O’Brien, Shelley and Revolutionary Ireland in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. BREV | |
| 2003 | Sharon Murphy (2003) Review Article: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather et al eds., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. BREV | |
| 2002 | Sharon Murphy (2002) Review of Norman White, Hopkins in Ireland in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Winter. BREV |
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Research Interests
Dr. Murphy has particular research interests in the Romantic and Victorian novel; the relationship between fiction and empire (particularly with reference to India); children's literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the history of the book and of reading; and the work of Maria Edgeworth. She is currently developing a research project on literary representations of the British experience of imperial India. Dr. Murphy welcomes proposals for doctoral work on topics related to her research interests.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Murphy teaches eighteenth-and nineteenth-century children's literature on the Master's Programme in Children's and Young Adult Literature, where she also supervises MA theses. She teaches on a number of undergraduate modules, where she specializes in the literature of the Romantic and Victorian periods and children's literature (especially of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). She also teaches a third-year research option on the representation of India in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels and tales for adults and children.