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Dr. John B. Murphy
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| Office Hours: | Monday - Thursday, 9:00 to 10:30, Face-to-Face and Online |
| Biography: | I grew up on the Fall Line in Sandersville, Georgia: midway between Macon and Augusta, midway between Atlanta and Savannah, where 名媛直播 Georgia and the Central Savannah River Area meet. Since then, I've lived in Athens, Georgia and Charlottesville, Virginia and spent significant time in Europe, especially the British Isles. Since 2019, I've live in Bonaire, between Perry and Warner Robins, and worked on MGA's campus in Cochran. My professional interests include: Modern British and World Literature Literary Modernism: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford Popular Literature: Horror, Mystery, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy Virtue Ethics and Literary Studies Positive Psychology and Student Success Artificial Intelligence and English Composition |
| Courses: | ENGL 1101-14: English Composition I (Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 to 4:45) ENGL 1101-23: English Composition I (Monday and Wednesday, 11:00 to 12:15) ENGL 1102-20: English Composition II (Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 to 12:15) ENGL 2112-03: World Literature II (Asynchronous, Online) |
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| Education: | Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Virginia: |
| CV: | Courses Taught, 1000-Level: College Composition I (PVCC) College Composition II (PVCC) English Composition I (MGA) English Composition II (MGA) Films of Alfred Hitchcock (UVA) Films of Stanley Kubrick (UVA) 鈥淢ad Men鈥 and Modern Times (UVA) Modern Times: The 1890鈥檚 and the 1900鈥檚 (UVA) Modern Times: The 1950鈥檚 and the 1960鈥檚 (UVA) Superheroes and Modern Mythology (UVA) 鈥淭he Wire鈥 and The Way We Live Now (UVA) Writing with The Beatles (UVA) Courses Taught, 2000-Level: American Literature I (PVCC) Apocalyptic Fiction and Film (UVA) Artificial Intelligence (UVA) British Literature I (PVCC) British Literature II (MGA) Dystopian Fiction and Film (UVA) Indian and Indian Diaspora Fiction (UVA) Modern and Contemporary Global Fiction (UVA) Modern and Contemporary Global Poetry (UVA) Pavilion Writers Roundtable (UVA) Twice-Told Tales (UVA) World Literature II (MGA) Courses Taught, 3000-Level: Advanced Academic and Professional Writing (UVA) History of Literatures in English I: Medieval and Early Modern Literature (UVA) History of Literatures in English III: Late Modern and Contemporary Literature (UVA) Shakespeare鈥檚 Tragedies and Romances (UVA) |
| Professional Experience: | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - 名媛直播 Coordinator, The Writing Center - 名媛直播 Assistant Professor (Visiting) - University of Virginia Assistant Professor (Adjunct) - Piedmont Virginia Community College Director, The Writing Center - University of Virginia Head Teaching Assistant, History of Literatures in English III - University of Virginia Tutor, The Writing Center - University of Virginia Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of Virginia Teacher, Brentwood School - Sandersville, Georgia Graduate Research Assistant - University of Georgia |
| Professional Affiliations: | The Joseph Conrad Society of America The Joseph Conrad Society UK The Ford Madox Ford Society The South Atlantic Modern Language Association |
| Awards and Honors: | Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia |
| Publications: | Selected Publications: 鈥淭he Egg and Spoon Race That Life Is: Virtue, Integrity, and Well-Being in Ford Madox Ford's Parade鈥檚 End.鈥 Forthcoming in Seamus O鈥橫alley ed, Ford Madox Ford Special Issue, Anglo Saxonica, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall 2025. 鈥淭he 鈥業nd Legs of The Elephink: Pantomime, Prophecy, and Tosh in Ford Madox Ford's Parade鈥檚 End,鈥 in Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes eds, Ford Madox Ford鈥檚 Parade鈥檚 End: The First World War, Culture and Modernity. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014. Selected Presentations 鈥淐ode, Character, Contingency: Virtue and Dependence in Conrad鈥檚 Late Fictions of Apprenticeship.鈥 Joseph Conrad Society UK. Rome, Italy: 2025. 鈥淎 Very Plucky Girl: Virtue Ethics and Moral Contingency in Joseph Conrad's Chance.鈥 Joseph Conrad Society UK. London, England: 2024. 鈥淭he Egg and Spoon Race: Virtue Ethics and Moral Contingency in Ford Madox Ford's Parade鈥檚 End.鈥 Ford Madox Ford International Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal: 2023. 鈥淎cademic Ethics in English Composition at an Access Institution.鈥 Association of English Language Teacher Educators. Ankara, Turkey: 2022. Selected Panels Chaired: |
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