Sara Murphy
Clinical Associate Professor
sem2@nyu.edu
(212) 992-7755
1 Wash Pl, Room 704
Office Hours
Monday Remote by Appointment
Tuesday Remote by Appointment
Wednesday Remote by Appointment
Thursday Remote by Appointment
Friday Remote by Appointment
B.A., Literature, Sarah Lawrence College, 1984
M.A., Comparative Literature, New York University, 1988
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University, 1997
Sara Murphy’s research and teaching interests include literature and philosophy, critical theory, feminist and gender studies, and 19th-century literary cultures. Her Gallatin courses have included “Literary and Cultural Theory;” “Sex, Gender, Nature, Culture; and Gender, Sexuality, and Self-Representation,” as well as courses in romanticism and the 19th-century and 20th-century novel. She has also taught at Rutgers, SUNY Albany, York College at the City University of New York, and NYU’s General Studies Program. Professor Murphy’s current projects include an exploration of the concept of consent in literature and political theory and a collection of essays on the representation of sexual violence in law and culture. Her work appears in such publications as Hypatia; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Philosophy & Social Criticism; Studies in Law, Politics and Society; The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History; Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy; and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, as well as several forthcoming essay collections. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the NYU Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, among others. In 2003, she received the Gallatin Adviser of Distinction Award and, in 2011, the Gallatin Excellence in Teaching Award.
Teaching and Research Interests
comparative studies in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; women’s writing; gender theory; psychoanalysis; literature and political theory
Courses
2021 Summer
2021 Spring
Guilty Subjects: Guilt in Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
First-Year Research Seminar: Literature and the Idea of Justice
2021 Fall
Literature and/of Human Rights
Proseminar: From Suspicions to Surfaces: Critique and Post-Critique in the Contemporary Humanities
2020 Summer
Charles Dickens' Victorian London: Fictions of Urbanization
2020 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Literature and the Idea of Justice
