Emily Christina Murphy

Bio

Emily Christina Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan. She is currently writing a monograph on contemporary biographical comics about modernist women. Her co-edited collection, EnTwine: Creative and Critical Teaching with Twine (2026) is forthcoming with Amherst College Press, and her recent and in-press published research appears in Comparative Literature Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, and the Intermedial Modernisms collection (Routledge).

Contributions

Review Essay: Paper Processors and Poetry’s Data

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In the first flush of text-based, web-published digital humanities projects, modernist literary studies has had a fairly thin representation, excluded largely by an accident of copyright. Literary scholarship from the Victorian period and earlier has relied on open-access text to build digital editions, digitizing, encoding, and circulating texts for scholarly and public audiences.

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The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald by Deborah Pike

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Zelda Fitzgerald and her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald appeared on the cover of Hearst’s International magazine in 1922, held up as icons of the Jazz Age, of youth, talent, and burgeoning literary celebrity. This image remains one of the most recognizable of the couple. However, alongside this iconicity, Zelda Fitzgerald’s various diagnoses of mental illness have prompted critics both sympathetic and unsympathetic to remember her primarily in terms of the tragedy of her life—whether as the mad wife who brought about the downfall of her brilliant husband, or as the victim of patriarchal control and pathologization.

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