Justine Murison

Assistant Professor

Office: 308 English
Office Phone: 333-0758

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Courses

English 475: Madness in Antebellum America
English 449: American Literature, 1820-1865
English 250: The American Novel to 1914
English 455: Major Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
English 300: Nineteenth-Century American Gothic

Specializations

Early American and Antebellum Literature; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Atlantic World; Medicine and Literature; History of Psychology

Publications

“The Tyranny of Sleep: Somnambulism, Moral Citizenship, and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly,” (forthcoming, Early American Literature)

“Hypochondria and Racial Interiority in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee,” (forthcoming, Arizona Quarterly)

Work in Progress

Book manuscript entitled States of Mind: Politics, Anxiety, and Antebellum American Literature.