Virginia Murphy
Lecturer RC Department: Creative Writing Phone: (734) 763 1194 vemu@umich.edu
Office: 68 Greene Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30-2:30
Interests include late nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, Native American literature, Environmental literature, and poetry. Research interests include working-class women’s autobiographies at the turn of the twentieth century, particularly the role writing played in the change of class status during this time.
More recent course development has focused on the rise in literacy rates brought about through the serial publication of travel narratives in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Particularly interested in the new genre of eco-criticism and environmental writing, and how these disciplines may help to bring awareness and solutions to the world’s environmental concerns.
Recent Courses
American Environmentalism and the Frontier West
Creative Non-Fiction
Environmental Literature
Books Published
Going Places With Children, co-editor
Cosmos Serenade, co-editor