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
Courses Taught
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)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Head, English
Professor, English
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Murison, J. S. (2023). Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States. (Early American Studies). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2g7v1t7
Murison, J. S. (2011). The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511812071
Murison, J. S. (2019). Paranoid Reading, Surface Pleasures, and Deadpan Humor in The Confidence-Man. In C. Marrs (Ed.), The New Melville Studies (pp. 13-26). (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646383.002
Murison, J. S. (2017). "Nudity and other sensitive states": Counterprivacy in Herman Melville’s Fiction. American Literature, 89(4), 697-726. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257823
Murison, J. S. (2015). Obeah and its others: Buffered selves in the era of tropical medicine. Atlantic Studies : Global Currents, 12(2), 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2015.1027477
Recent Publications
Murison, J. S. (2024). Emerson and Secularism. In C. Hanlon (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson (pp. 333-348). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894373.013.25
Murison, J. S. (2024). Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem by Jennifer L. Fleissner (review). Studies in the Novel, 56(2), 208-210. https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2024.a928658
Murison, J. S. (2023). Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States. (Early American Studies). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2g7v1t7
Murison, J. S. (2020). Whitman, Women, and Privacy. In M. Cohen (Ed.), The New Walt Whitman Studies (pp. 33-49). (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108296830.003
Murison, J. S. (2019). Paranoid Reading, Surface Pleasures, and Deadpan Humor in The Confidence-Man. In C. Marrs (Ed.), The New Melville Studies (pp. 13-26). (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646383.002