I am an associate professor of literature at the University of Texas at Dallas whose research interests include English Renaissance literature, gender studies, early modern women’s writing, Shakespeare, and digital humanities. My first book, Virtuous Necessity, published by The University of Michigan Press in 2015, studies representations of chastity, silence, and obedience in early modern conduct manuals for women and literary texts. My second book project focuses on medical texts and early modern literary and popular texts. Recent work of mine in Shakespeare / SEX: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality (Arden, 2020) and Ballads and Performance: The Multi-Modal Theatricality of the Early Modern Stage (EMC Imprint 2018) draws on some of the early research for the book.
Currently, I serve as the Dean of Undergraduate Education at The University of Texas at Dallas as well. You can learn more about our work to make the most of our students’ many important talents and help them be successful on our webpage: https://oue.utdallas.edu/
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Contact Info: Jessica C. Murphy, Literature, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Rd JO 31, Richardson, TX 75080 e-mail: jessica.c.murphy_at_utdallas.edu
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