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Education:

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in English
University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in English 
Stanford University, B.A., English with Honors

Professional Experience: 

1997-present Fu Jen University, Taiwan, Assistant Professor of English
2004-present Editor, Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics
2002-03 St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, Visiting Professor of English

Dissertation:

"Exposing the Modern:  World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907" 
Director:  Elisa New;  Readers: Nancy Bentley, Christopher Looby

Address

Department of English Language & Literature 
Fu Jen Catholic University
Hsin-Chuang, 242
Taiwan, R.O.C
Tel: (O) 2905-3672
Office: SF229
 Email: 041845@mail.fju.edu.tw

Specialization 

  • American Literature
  • Literature and Visual Art
  • Literature and Religion
  • Modernism and Postmodernism.

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Research

  • "Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907." (NSC 89-2411-H030-010)
  • Willa Cather and William Faulkner. Literature and Culture Teaching Database (LCTD). National Taiwan University. <http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/index.htm>. Spring 2005.
  • Teaching Grant, Web-Assisted and Distance Learning Committee, Fu Jen University, 2003-04.
  • Teaching Literature with Multimedia Project (in conjunction with National Central University), Nineteenth Century American Literature and Visual Art, National Science Council, 2001
  • 「人文社會科學教育改進計畫」<英文系語言與文學網路課程(2)︰進階課程與聲音與影像教材的製作>. 教育部顧問室, 1999. 

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Awards and Honors

  • SVD Research Award, Fu Jen University, 2006.
  • Teaching Achievement Award, Fu Jen University, 2005
  • SVD Research Award, Fu Jen University, 2002.
  • National Science Council, Taiwan, Research Award for "Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907," 1998.
  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-95.
  • Van Pelt Library Special Collections Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-95.
  • University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-94.
  • Distinction, Ph.D. field examinations, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
  • Patrick Day Essay Contest award, University of Pennsylvania Department of English, 1993.
  • Travel Fellowship, French Institute of Culture and Technology, University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

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Publications

  • Books
  • Collections
  • Joseph C. Murphy, ed. From Shadows to Light: Dante and His Times. Spec. issue of Fu Jen Studies 35 (2003).
  • Periodical Articles
  • “Repatching the Tailor: Violence on Rosicky’s Urban Frontiers.” Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Ed. Joseph Urgo and Merrill Skaggs. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2007. 228-37.
  • “The Dialectics of Seeing in Cather’s Pittsburgh: ‘Double Birthday’ and Urban Allegory.” Cather Studies, Volume 7: Willa Cather as Cultural Icon. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2007. 253-68
  • "Nervous Tracery: Modern Analogies between Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 33.1 (March 2007):  75-85
  • "Learning from Atlanta: Prophecy and Postmodernism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Literature and Belief 26.2 (December 2006): 1-25.
  • with Lu Po-Shen, Cecilia Liu, and Llyn Scott. "An Interview with Lu Po-Shen." Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics 39 (December 2005): 1-15.
  • "Distant Effects: Whitman, Olmsted, and the American Landscape." Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies 17,18 (August 2005). <http://www.micklestreet.rutgers.edu/pages/Scholarship/Murphy.htm>.
  • "Strange Capabilities: Space, Grace, and Modernism in the Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Leo Tolstoy." Literature and Belief 24.1,2 (2004): 217-38.
  • "Through the Veil: Flannery O'Connor, Dante, and Medieval Exegesis." Literature and Belief 23.2 (2003): 27-43.
  • 墨樵 (Joseph C. Murphy) 〈苦悶的微笑：四重層次解讀法──從但丁到歐康諾〉("The Smile of Agony: Four-level Interpretation from Dante Alighieri to Flannery O'Connor.")（謝惠英 譯） 《中外文學Chung Wai Literary Monthly》中世紀專輯：但丁《神曲》及美國中世紀主義 第三十三卷 第六期 九十二年十一月號61-73頁
  • “The Smile of Agony: Four-level Exegesis from Dante to Flannery O’Connor.” From Shadows to Light: Dante and His Times. Spec. issue of Fu Jen Studies 35 (2003): 115-26.
  • “‘Interchangeable Attractions’: Henry Adams, World’s Fairs, and the Architecture of Empire.” Reading for the New Millennium: Selected Essays from PKU-SUNYA International Conference on American Literature and Culture. Ed. Huang Zongying. Beijing: Petroleum Industry Press, 2003. 420-31.
  • "Symbolism and the City in John P. McNamee's Diary of a City Priest." Visions of the Spiritual in Contemporary Literature. Proceedings of the Fu Jen University Fourth International Conference on Literature and Religion. Taipei: Fu Jen University (forthcoming).
  • 墨樵 (Joseph C. Murphy) 〈若望．麥克敏《一位城市神父的日記》中的意象與城市〉("Symbolism and the City in John P. McNamee's Diary of a City Priest.")（黃妃伶 譯）《〈輔仁大學第四屆文學與宗教國際會議：當代文學中的靈光〉論文集》
  • Final Report, National Science Council Project, "Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907" (NSC 89-2411-H030-010).
  • Rev. of The Best and Fairest Land: Images of China in Medieval Europe, by Nicholas Koss. NTU Studies in Language and Literature 9 (2000): 331-36.
  • "The Loafer and the Loaf-Buyer:  Whitman, Franklin, and Urban Space."  Modern Language Studies 28.2 (1998): 41-54. 
  • "Whitman's Passagen-Werk:  Leaves of Grass and the Nineteenth-Century Exposition." Fu Jen Studies 31 (1998): 51-64.
  • "Protestantism." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.  Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1994. 711-12.
  • "Cather's Re-Vision of American Typology in My Antonia."  Willa Cather:  Family, Community, and History (The BYU Symposium).  Ed. John J. Murphy.  Provo:  Brigham Young University, 1990.  213-219.
  • "Shadows on the Rock and To the Lighthouse:  A Bakhtinian Perspective." Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter Special Literary Issue  31 (1987) :  31-37.
  • "The Architecture of Education."  Montage  Winter 1991 :  101-110.
  • Conference Papers
  • “Cather’s Ruskinian Landscapes: Typologies of the New World.” Willa Cather: A Writer’s Worlds. Eleventh International Cather Seminar. Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet, Provence, France. June 28, 2007.
  • “Nervous Tracery: Modern Analogies between Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism.” Seventh Annual Fu Jen Medieval Conference. Fu Jen University. April 22, 2006.
  • “Re-patching the Tailor: The Violence of ‘Neighbour Rosicky.’” Violence, the Arts, and Cather. Tenth International Cather Seminar. U of Nebraska—Lincoln. June 24, 2005.
  • "Distant Effects: Whitman, Olmsted, and the American Landscape." Whitman and Place Conference. Rutgers University, Camden, NJ. April 22, 2005.
  • "Kindred Spirits: American Painters and Writers." Invited Lecturer. English Department, National Taipei University of Technology, Dec. 7, 2004.
  • "Landscapes of Grace in the Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Leo Tolstoy." Fifth Literature and Belief Symposium. Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature. Provo, UT. March 18, 2004.
  • "'Double Birthday': The Dialectics of Seeing in Cather's Pittsburgh." Cather as Cultural Icon. Ninth International Cather Seminar. Bread Loaf, VT. June 1, 2003.
  • "Sublime Online: Teaching American Literature through Painting." Teaching Literature with Multimedia Conference. Fu Jen University. May 15, 2002.
  • "The Smile of Agony: Four-level Interpretation from Dante Alighieri to Flannery O'Connor." From Shadows to Light: Dante and His Times. Third Annual Fu Jen Medieval Conference. Fu Jen University. March 21, 2002.
  • "Symbolism and the City in John P. McNamee's Diary of a City Priest." Fu Jen University Fourth International Conference on Literature and Religion: Visions of the Spiritual in Contemporary Literature. Fu Jen University. Nov. 24, 2001.
  • "'Interchangeable Attractions': Henry Adams, World's Fairs, and the Architecture of Empire." Reading for the New Millennium: A Global Dialogue on American Literature and Culture in a Time of Change. PKU-SUNYA International Conference on American Literature and Culture. Peking University, Beijing, China. Oct. 26, 2001. 
  • "Realism and Hyperreality:  Howells, World's Fairs, and the Problem of Narrative." American Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 31, 1997. 
  • "The Loafer and the Loaf-Buyer:  Whitman, Franklin, and Urban Space."  Northeast Modern Language Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 4, 1997.
  • "Whitman's Passagen-Werk:  Leaves of Grass and the Nineteenth-Century Exposition."  American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 12, 1995.
  • "The Spaces of Taulkinham:  Prophecy and Postmodernism in Wise Blood."  Flannery O'Connor Seventieth Birthday Symposium, Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, Brigham Young University, Nov. 9, 1995. 
  • "Primitivism, Modernism, and Excavation in Cather's The Professor's House. Western Literature Association meeting, Denton, TX, Oct. 5, 1990. 
  • "Primitivism and Difference:  Archeology as Metaphor in The Professor's House. Fourth National Cather Seminar, Santa Fe, NM, June 21, 1990.
  • "Redemptive and Providential Perspectives of History in My Antonia. Western Literature Association meeting, Eugene, OR, Oct. 6, 1988. 
  • Magazines & Newspapers
  • Translation
  • Stage Productions
  • Textbook and Online courses
  • Work in Progress

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Speeches

  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，Literature and the Visual Arts，新莊：輔仁大學，2007年5月27日。
  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，“Making Connections: Teaching Literature and Culture with Multimedia Resources.” 新莊：輔仁大學，2006年6月2日。
  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，Landscapes and Cityscapes，輔仁大學舒德樓理圖劇場，2005年11月09日。
  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，Re-patching the Tailor: The Violence of 'Neighbour Rosicky'，美國：內布拉斯加州，2005年6月24日。
  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，Distant Effects: Whitman, Olmsted, and the American Landscape，美國：紐澤西州，2005年4月22日。
  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，Kindred Spirits: American Painters and Writers，台北，2004年12月07日。

　

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Teaching

  • Courses Taught
  • Fu Jen University, 1997-

Graduate

  • Research and Bibliography
  • Romantic Landscapes in Literature and Painting
  • American Gothic Tradition
  • Willa Cather and William Faulkner
  • Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
  • Topics in American Literature and Painting
  • Major American Novels: Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism
  • The City in American Literature: Enlightenment to Modernity 
  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Visual Art 
  • Early American Literature 
  • American Novel: Revolution to Realism

Undergraduate

  • Landscape in American Literature and Painting
  • Willa Cather and William Faulkner
  • Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
  • Topics in American Literature and Painting
  • American Literature I 
  • American Literature II
  • Masterworks of American Fiction 
  • American Novel: Romance to Realism
  • Introduction to Western Literature 
  • Western Civilization I
  • Western Civilization II 
  • World Cultures 
  • Sophomore Composition and Conversation
  • St. Vincent College, 2002-03
  • American Studies I
  • American Studies II
  • City in American Literature and Culture
  • American Realism and the Culture of Spectacle
  • Language and Rhetoric
  • University of Pennsylvania, 1990-97
    • Realism, Modernism, and the Visual Image
    • The Pictorial Imagination: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Visual Art
    • Encountering the City
    • Modernism/Postmodernism
    • City and Community in American Literature
    • Literature of the American South
    • American Literature and Social Resistance. 
  • Thesis Directed
  • "Sensation, Imitation, and Selfhood in William Faulkner's Dysfunctional Sanctuary." (威廉•福克納的失常《聖殿》：從感官、模仿到真實自我) Josephine, Chia-Hui Huang. October 2007.
  • "From Confinement, Hybridity to Integration: Body in Limbo of Intertextuality in Toni Morrison's Beloved." (從囿限、混雜到整合：論童妮•摩里森《寵兒》中位於互文中界的身體) Anne, Chia-Hui Chen. July 2007.
  • "From the External to the Internal: The Relation between Recurrent Image(rie)s and Identity Crisis in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia." (微拉．凱瑟 《我的安東尼亞》：外在重複意象與內在自我認同危機 ) Lynn, Yu-Ling Tzeng. March 2007.
  • "Domains of Horror: Spatial Identity and Narrative Resolution in Edgar Allan Poe's Tales." (驚悚國度：愛倫坡故事中空間與角色的特質分析) Andrea, Yi- Hsueh, Wu. March 2007.
  • "Abjection and Transgression: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Mina Loy's Avant-Garde Poetics." (抑斥現象與僭越界線：旻娜•洛伊前衛詩學之精神分析學式閱讀) Carol, Yi-Wei Lin. June 2006.
  • "Call and Response, Passing and Integration: The Musical Structure of Jean Toomer's Cane." (呼喊與迴響，流動與整合：吉恩．圖瑪之《甘蔗》的音樂性結構) Chris, Cheng-Hsuan Wu. June 2006.
  • "Seeing 'The Real Thing': The Aesthetics of Impressionism in Henry James's The Ambassadors." (看見"真實": 亨利詹姆斯"奉使記"中的印象主義美學) Allison Tzu-yu Lin. June 2001.

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Other Academic Activities & Service

  • Services
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度碩士班委員會委員，2006.08.01~2007.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度大學部二年級轉學考試閱卷，2006.07.14~2006.07.11。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度大學部二年級轉學考試主試，2006.07.13~2006.07.13。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度大學部外國學生申請入學資料審查、筆試出題閱卷及口試，2006.05~2006.05。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度大學部二年級轉學考試命題，2006.05~2006.06。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度碩士班一般生筆試出題主試閱卷，2006.04.10~2006.04.10。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度大學部甄試入學口試，2006.04.08~2006.04.08。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度碩士班甄試生口試，2005.12.21~2005.12.21。
  • 輔仁大學英文系95學年度碩士班甄試生筆試出題主試，2005.12.13~2005.12.13。
  • 95學年度碩士班甄試生筆試閱卷，2005.12~2005.12。
  • 第二屆輔仁盃英語演講比賽裁判，2005.11.16~2005.11.16。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度大學部二年級導師，2005.08.01~2006.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度招生委員會委員，2005.08.01~2006.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度碩士班委員會委員，2005.08.01~2006.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度招生委員會委員，2005.08.01~2006.07.31。
  • Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 第39期總編輯，2005.08.01~2006.07.31。
  • Tenth International Cather Seminar，2005.06.22~2005.06.22。
  • 為輔仁大學翻譯學研究所同步翻譯進行演講錄音，2005.06.07~2005.06.07。
  • The War in Iraq（非正式公開英語辯論，輔仁大學翻譯學研究所主辦），2005.05.19~2005.05.19。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度輔系資料審查及口試，2005.05~2005.05。
  • 墨樵 Joseph C. Murphy，輔仁大學英文系94學年度大學部甄選入學口試委員，2005.04.09~2005.04.09。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度碩士班入學考試筆試出題及閱卷，2005.04~2005.04。
  • 輔仁大學英語演講比賽評審（九十三學年度輔仁大學「全國大專校院英語演講比賽」預賽），2005.03.30~2005.03.30。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度碩士班甄試口試委員，2004.12.22~2004.12.22。
  • 輔仁大學英文系94學年度碩士班甄試筆試出題及閱卷，2004.12~2004.12。
  • Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 第38期總編輯，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系93學年度大學部二年級總導師，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系93學年度大學部二年級英文作文與英語會話課程召集人，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系93學年度發展委員會召集人，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系93學年度招生委員會委員，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系93學年度碩士班委員會委員，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • 輔仁大學英文系93學年度導師代表，2004.08.01~2005.07.31。
  • Other Professional Activities
  • Editorial Board, Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics, 1999-2004
  • Outside Reader, Deutsch-taiwanische Hefte, Fu Jen University, 2001
  • Session Organizer, "The World's Fair as Public Sphere." American Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 31, 1997.
  • Fellow, Fifth Literature and Belief Symposium. Brigham Young University. March 18-20, 2004.
  • Fellow, Cather as Cultural Icon. Ninth International Cather Seminar. Bread Loaf, VT. May 28-June 2, 2003. 
  • Session Chair, Fifth Literature and Belief Symposium. Brigham Young University. March 19, 2004.
  • Session Chair, Cather as Cultural Icon. Ninth International Cather Seminar. Bread Loaf, VT. May 30, 2003. 
  • Session Chair, From Shadows to Light: Dante and His Times. Third Annual Fu Jen Medieval Conference. March 21, 2002.
  • Session Chair, Culture Studies Session. Reading for the New Millennium: PKU-SUNYA International Conference on American Literature and Culture. Oct. 26, 2001. 
  • Session Chair, "Internet and the Teaching of English Literature." WWW & Multimedia English Teaching Seminar. Taipei: June 18, 1999.
  • Session Chair, Flannery O'Connor Seventieth Birthday Symposium. Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature. Brigham Young University. Nov. 9, 1995. 
  • Sound Recording: Reading of "The Two -Ismos," Fu Jen English Internet-Assisted Course and Databank. Readings in Modern English for English Minors. 2001. <http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/multiple_ed/essay/texts_ismo.html>.
  • Judge, EF International Educational Institute, National English Contest for High School Students, March 11, 2001. 
  • Presentation (with Willa Murphy): "Some Differences Between American and British Usage," English First Language School, Cambridge, England, August 17, 2000.
  • Advisors Coordinator, Department of English, Fu Jen University, 1999-2000.
    Sophomore Composition Coordinator, Department of English, Fu Jen University, 1998-2000.
  • Research Assistant, Explanatory Notes, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Ed. John J. Murphy. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
  • Director, Arts House Living-Learning Program, Department of Residential Living, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-96.
  • Writer, Career Planning and Placement Center, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-97.
  • Additional Teaching Appointments
  • Assistant Professor of English (Adjunct). School of Continuing Education. Fu Jen Catholic University, 1998-2001.
  • Instructor of English. Bureau of Immigration, Ministry of the Interior, Republic of China, 1999-2000.
  • Lecturer in English. College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 1997. 
  • Instructor of Freshman English. University of Pennsylvania, 1990-91, Fall 1992, Spring 1996, Fall 1996. 
  • Instructor of English. Pre-Freshman Program, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 1996. 
  • Teaching Assistant. University of Pennsylvania 1989-90, Spring 1993, Fall 1995. 
  • Writing Fellow. Writing Across the University (WATU), Spring 1994.

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