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Patrick Murphy

Education

• Ph.D. English Literature, University of Wisconsin (2007)
• M.A. English Literature, University of Wisconsin (2001)
• B.A. English, Denison University (2000)

Teaching and Research Interests

• Old and Middle English literature
• Medievalism
• History of the English Language
• Comics and graphic novels

Selected Publications

Books

• Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M.R. James. Penn State University Press, 2017. 
• Unriddling the Exeter Riddles. Penn State University Press, 2011.

Articles

• "Teaching the History of the English Language with Comics," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART), Spring 2021 (28.1)
• "Robert Thornton, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Cambridge University Library MS. Dd.11.45." Modern Philology 114.1 (August 2016). With Fred Porcheddu.
• "Lay of a Last Survivor: Beowulf, Great War Memorials, and M.R. James's 'A Warning to the Curious." Review of English Studies 66 (2015), 205-22. With Fred Porcheddu.
• "Amateur Error, Templar Terror, and M.R. James's Haunted Whistle." Philological Quarterly 92.3 (2013): 389-415. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, vol. 214 (2015). With Fred Porcheddu.
• "Eumenides and 'Newmenides': Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge." Forthcoming contribution to Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus. With Fred Porcheddu.
• "The Manuscript of M.R. James's 'The Ash-Tree.'" Notes & Queries 61.4 (2014): 583-5. With Fred Porcheddu and Stephen Hopkins.
• “Renovation and Resurrection in M.R. James’s ‘Episode of Cathedral History.’” Studies in Medievalism 22 (2013): 85-113. With Fred Porcheddu.
• “The Antiquarian Diaries of Thomas Hearne and Mr. Poynter in the Fiction of M.R. James: Duty Unfulfilled.” English Literature in Transition 55 (2012): 339-60.  With Fred Porcheddu.  
• “Leo ond beo: Exeter Book Riddle 17 as Samson’s Lion.” English Studies 88.4 (2007): 371-87.
• “The Riders of the Celestial Wain in Exeter Book Riddle 22.” Notes and Queries 251.4 (2006): 401-07.
• “Bocstafas: A Literal Reading of Exeter Book Riddle 57.” Philological Quarterly  84.2 (2005): 139-60. 

Work in Progress

Patrick J. Murphy's current book project is a work of graphic nonfiction: A Comics History of the English Language.