Meet Dr. Bernice Murphy, Associate Professor in Popular Literature, Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Bernice Murphy is an Associate Professor in Popular Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where she specializes in American horror and Gothic fiction and film. She completed her PhD on Shirley Jackson at Trinity in 2003 and has since become a leading scholar on Jackson’s work, editing Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy and serving as academic consultant on The Letters of Shirley Jackson (Penguin Random House, 2021).

Her research explores themes of place and space in American Gothic narratives, with four monographs to date, including The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture and The California Gothic in Fiction and Film. Dr. Murphy has also co-edited numerous essay collections, most recently Twentieth-Century Gothic (2022), and co-edits the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to True Crime.

You can purchase Dr. Murphy's book at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6NUK8