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Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Early American Literature; Medicine and Literature; Secular Studies; Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; History of the Novel
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2006
M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000
B.A., American University, 1997
Teaching
American Affects (547)
Secularisms and Early US Fiction (547)
Slavery and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (397)
The American Novel to 1914 (250)
Survey of American Literature 1 (255)
Madness in Antebellum America (475)
American Literature, 1820-1865 (449)
Major Authors: Edgar Allan Poe (455)
Nineteenth-Century American Gothic (300)
Literature and Culture of the American Civil War (461)
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Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Murison, J. S., 2023, University of Pennsylvania Press. 280 p. (Early American Studies)Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Murison, J. S., May 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 228 p. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Paranoid Reading, Surface Pleasures, and Deadpan Humor in The Confidence-Man
Murison, J. S., Mar 21 2019, The New Melville Studies. Marrs, C. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 13-26 14 p. (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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"Nudity and other sensitive states": Counterprivacy in Herman Melville’s Fiction
Murison, J. S., Dec 1 2017, In: American Literature. 89, 4, p. 697-726 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Obeah and its others: Buffered selves in the era of tropical medicine
Murison, J. S., Apr 3 2015, In: Atlantic Studies : Global Currents. 12, 2, p. 144-159 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Press/Media
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At 250 years after Jane Austen’s birth, why do her novels remain so popular?
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Press/Media: Expert Comment / Interview
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“A Novel and an Apocalypse: Privacy and Prophecy in Nathaniel Beverley Tucker’s The Partisan Leader"
Murison, J. S. (Speaker)
Nov 2014Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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“Nudity and Other Sensitive States: Privacy and Secularity in the Antebellum United States"
Murison, J. S. (Speaker)
Apr 2015Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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Hypocrisy in the Age of Reason: Private Morality, Religious Freedom, and the Styles of Deism
Murison, J. S. (Speaker)
Oct 2015Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation
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Nudity and Other Sensitive States: Herman Melville's Counterprivate Fictions
Murison, J. S. (Invited speaker)
Oct 2016Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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“A Garb so Uncouth: Secularism, Private Religion, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Weird Style"
Murison, J. S. (Speaker)
Jun 2018Activity: Talk types › Invited talk