Research outputs
2026
Resisting melancholic whiteness in Mohsin Hamid's <i>The Last White Man</i>
Murray, H. L. (2026). Resisting melancholic whiteness in Mohsin Hamid's <i>The Last White Man</i>. LITERATURE CRITIQUE AND EMPIRE TODAY, 61(1), 112-127. doi:10.1177/30333962251414785
2025
Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century Speculative Writing
Murray, H. L. (2025). Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century Speculative Writing. In Whiteness and American Literature (pp. 121-134). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009522748.011
The Perversions of Poe's Patriarchy
The Perversions of Poe's Patriarchy (2024). Poe Studies, 57(1), E3-E6. doi:10.1353/poe.2024.a939010
2024
Austral Ancestors in Ernest Favenc’s Frontier Gothic
Murray, H. L. (2024). Austral Ancestors in Ernest Favenc's Frontier Gothic. GOTHIC STUDIES, 26(3), 304-322. doi:10.3366/gothic.2024.0206
2023
Get In and <i>Get Out</i>: White Racial Transformation and the US Gothic Imagination
Murray, H. L. (2023). Get In and <i>Get Out</i>: White Racial Transformation and the US Gothic Imagination. HUMANITIES-BASEL, 12(6). doi:10.3390/h12060129
'Who the Hell is Edgar' – a viral Eurovision song about Edgar Allan Poe evokes a strange history of mediums and creative possession
Murray, H. (2023). 'Who the Hell is Edgar' – a viral Eurovision song about Edgar Allan Poe evokes a strange history of mediums and creative possession. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/
Confusion
Murray, H. L. (2023). Confusion. In The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies (pp. 61-71). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003092988-5
2022
6 White/Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial Transformations, 1839
Murray, H. L. (2022). 6 White/Not-White: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Racial Transformations, 1839. In Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (pp. 88-100). Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.1515/9781474476300-009
“A respectable narrative”: The Viral Load in “Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe”
Murray, H. L. (2022). “A respectable narrative”: The Viral Load in “Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe”. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, 48(1), 50-66. doi:10.5325/nathhawtrevi.48.1.0050
Spiritualism in <i>Pierre;</i>
Murray, H. L. (2022). Spiritualism in <i>Pierre;</i>. In Unknown Book (pp. 102-112). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781119668565.ch8
WHITE/NOT-WHITE: ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD'S RACIAL TRANSFORMATIONS, 1839
Murray, H. L. (2022). WHITE/NOT-WHITE: ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD'S RACIAL TRANSFORMATIONS, 1839. In CROSSINGS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE (pp. 88-100). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
2021
Reading Utopia in 2022
Murray, H. L. (2021). Reading Utopia in 2022. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-THEORY AND INTERPRETATION, 62(3-4), 477-482. doi:10.1353/ecy.2023.a906903
2 ‘THIS IS A STORY-TELLING AGE’: SPECTRAL NOSTALGIA IN BRACEBRIDGE HALL
2 ‘THIS IS A STORY-TELLING AGE’: SPECTRAL NOSTALGIA IN BRACEBRIDGE HALL (2021). In Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction (pp. 47-70). Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.1515/9781474481755-005
Critical Whiteness Studies and Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Murray, H. L. (2022). Critical Whiteness Studies and Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Literature. ENGLISH, 70(271), 333-339. doi:10.1093/english/efac003
Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction
Murray, H. L. (2021). Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction. Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.1515/9781474481755
2020
Who is this for? A review of the Reclaim Her Name Publishing Project
Murray, H. (2020). Who is this for? A review of the Reclaim Her Name Publishing Project. Retrieved from https://legacywomenwriters.org/2020/10/28/who-is-this-for/
Reading Utopia in 2020
Murray, H. (2020). Reading Utopia in 2020. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 61(5).
Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism
Murray, H. L. (2020). Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES, 54(4), 816-819. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
2019
Brown Studies Now and in Transition
Murray, H. L. (2019). Brown Studies Now and in Transition. In P. Barnard, H. Emmett, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown (pp. 556-570). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
2017
"I say to you that I am dead!": Medical Experiment and the Limits of Personhood in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' (1845)'
Murray, H. L. (2017). "I say to you that I am dead!": Medical Experiment and the Limits of Personhood in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' (1845)'. The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 16, 22-40. Retrieved from https://irishgothichorror.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/isay.pdf
Roundtable - Hester Blum (ed.), Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, £18.91). Pp. 224.<scp>isbn</scp>978 0 8122 4798 5.
MURRAY, H. L., COGHLAN, J. M., PALMER, S., WRIGHT, T. F., & BLUM, H. (2017). Roundtable - Hester Blum (ed.), Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, £18.91). Pp. 224.<scp>isbn</scp>978 0 8122 4798 5.. Journal of American Studies, 51(3), 981-994. doi:10.1017/s002187581700055x
49th Parallel : an Interdisciplinary Journal of North America
Murray, H. L., & Cobb, T. (Eds.) (2017). 49th Parallel : an Interdisciplinary Journal of North America (Vol. -). University of Birmingham.