Professor Bernice Murphy

• "It's Not the House That's Haunted": Demons, Debt and the Family in Peril in Recent Horror Cinema in, editor(s)Murray Leeder , Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era, London/New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, pp235 - 253, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2015
• , 'Horror Fiction From the Decline of Universal Horror to the Rise of the Psycho Killer' in, editor(s)Xavier Aldana Reyes , Horror: A Literary History, London, British Library, 2016, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2016
• 'Girl Anachronism: We have Always Lived in the Castle and the Depiction of Adolescent Psychosis in Excision (2012) and Stoker (2013)' in, editor(s)Melanie Anderson and Lisa Kroger , Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences , London, Routledge, 2016, pp183 - 200, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2016
• Cities of the Insane: The Asylum as Ruin in Recent American Horror Narratives' in, editor(s)Dara Downey, Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker , Landscapes of Liminality , London, Rowman and Littlefield , 2016, pp49 - 70, [Dr Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2016
• Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Popular Fiction, 1st, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 1 - 150ppBook, 2017
• White Settlers and Windigoes: Teaching Monstrosity Within the American Gothic Narrative in, editor(s)Adam Golub and Heather Hayton , Monsters in the Classroom, North Carolina, McFarland, 2017, pp114 - 128, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2017
• Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction , Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson (editors), 1st, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018Book, 2018
• 'The Have Risen Once: They May Rise Again": Animals in Horror Fictiion in, editor(s)Laura Kremmel and Kevin Corstorphine , The Handbook to Horrror Literature, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp257 - 273, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2018
• 'We Will Have a Happy Marriage if It Kills Him": Gillian Flynn and the Rise of Domestic Noir in, editor(s)Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson , Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp158 - 169, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2018
• 'We Needed to Get a Lot of White Collars Dirty"" Apocalypse as Opportunity in Max Brook's World War Z" in, editor(s)Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson , Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp193 - 205, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2018
• 'Changing the Story': Popular Fiction Today in, editor(s)Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson , Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp1 - 9, [Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson]Book Chapter, 2018
• Bernice M. Murphy and Edwina Keown, "Uncanny Irish-American Relations: Elizabeth Bowen and Shirley Jackson", The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature , (9), 2017, p57 - 84Journal Article, 2017
• Bernice M. Murphy, 'Wheels of Tragedy': Death on the Highways in Carnival of Souls and the Highway Horror Film, Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts, 24, 2017, p1-12Journal Article, 2017
• Pennywise Dreadful: The Journal of Stephen King Studies , https://pennywisedreadful.wordpress.com/, Online, Wordpress, [Editorial Board Member], 2016Editorial Board, 2016, URL
• Bernice M. Murphy, Hereditary and Sharp Objects, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studis, 17, 2018, p179 - 185Review Article, 2018
• Place, Space, and the Reconfiguration of "White Trash" Monstrosity in, editor(s)Dawn Keetley , Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2020, pp72 - 86, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2020
• Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's Domestic Humor in, editor(s)Jill Anderson and Melanie Anderson , Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond Hill House , New York, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp7 - 26, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2020
• Psychoanalysis and the Popular Gothic in, editor(s)Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend , The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp180 - 198, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2021
• Bernice M. Murphy, The California Gothic in Fiction and Film, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 1 - 314ppBook, 2022
• Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, Twentieth-Century Gothic, Edinbugh, Edinbugh University Press, 2022, 1 - 324ppBook, 2022
• Folk Horror in, editor(s)Mark Storey and Stephen Shapiro , The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp139 - 153, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2022
• 'Masks of Sanity: Psychopathy and the Twentieth-Century Gothic' in, editor(s)Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhliann , Twentieth-Century Gothic, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp213 - 227, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2022
• 'Going to Extremes: The Gothic in the Twentieth-Century' in, editor(s)Bernice Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhliann , Twentieth-Century Gothic, Edinburgh, 2022, pp1 - 12, [Bernice M. Murphy and Sorcha Ni Fhliann]Book Chapter, 2022
• 'Black Boxes: Tradition and Human Sacrifice in American Folk Horror' in, editor(s)Dawn Keetley and Ruth Heholt , Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2023, pp127 - 143, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2023
• American Serial Killers in, editor(s)Vivien Miller and James Campbell , The Routledge History of Crime in America, London, Routledge, 2024, pp215 - 230, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2024
• Editor: Bernice M. Murphy, Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, 1, North Carolina, McFarland and Company, 2005, 1 - 303ppBook, 2005
• The Irish Journal of Horror and Gothic Studies, 1, (2006), Bernice M. Murphy and Elizabeth McCarthy, [eds.]Journal, 2006, URL
• Bernice M.Murphy, The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture, First, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 1 - 236ppBook, 2009
• "Dead Ends: The Decline of the recent American Horror Movie" in, editor(s)Kate Hebblethwaite and Elizabeth McCarthy , Fear: Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear, Dublin, Four Courts, 2007, pp188 - 200, [Bernice M.Murphy]Book Chapter, 2007
• "I Am God": The Domineering Patriarch in Shirley Jackson's Gothic Fiction in, editor(s)Ruth Anolik , Horrific Sex: Essays on Sexual Differemce in Gothic Literature, North Carolina, McFarland, 2007, pp135 - 150, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2007
• Sorcha Ni Fhlainn(ed.), "American Parricide: Murderous Children in the Work of Shirley Jackson and Lionel Shriver", Oxford, terdisciplinary Press E-Book, 2009Proceedings of a Conference, 2009
• "Hideous Doughnuts and Haunted Housewives: Gothic Undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's Domestic Fiction" in, editor(s)Helen Conrad O'Brien and Julie Anne Stevens , A Ghostly Genre: Essays on Short Supernatural Fiction, Dublin, Four Courts, 2010, pp229 - 251, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2010
• "Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic" in, editor(s)Sarah Lauro and Deborah Christie , "Better Off Dead": The Evolution of the Zombie as Post Human, New York, Fordham University Press, 2011, pp216 - 239, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2011
• Bernice M. Murphy, Elizabeth McCarthy, Darryl Jones, IT Came From the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties, 1st, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 256ppBook, 2011
• "All that Zombies Allow: Reimagining the 1950s in Fido and Far From Heaven" in, editor(s)Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M, Murphy , It Came From the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp216 - 234, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2011
• "Identical Boxes Spreading Like Gangrene": Defining the Suburban Gothic in, editor(s)Charles Crow , A Companion to American Gothic, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons, 2013, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2013
• Bernice M. Murphy, "How Will I Explain Why We Live Behind a Wall?" La Zona (2007) as Suburban Gothic Narrative., ILHA do DESTERRO: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, 62, 2012Journal Article, 2012
• 'Children Misbehaving in the Walls!' Or, Wes Craven's Suburban Family Values in, editor(s)Sue Zlosnik and Agnes Andeweg , Gothic KInship, Manchester, Manchester Univesity Press, 2013, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2013
• The Beautiful Stranger and the Inconceivable Alien: The Body Replacement Narrative in 1950s American Science Fiction. in, editor(s)Darryl Jones and Gerald Dawe , Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, pp113 - 131, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter, 2013
• Bernice M. Murphy, The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness., 1st, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan , 2013, 1 - 257ppBook, 2013
• Bernice M. Murphy, The Highway Horror Film, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1 - 144ppBook, 2014

• Bernice M. Murphy, "The Suburban Gothic in CInema: Top 10", 2015, -Miscellaneous
• Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others , Bernice M. Murphy and Elizabeth McCarthy (Editors), 1st, North Carolina, McFarland, 2016, 1 - 248ppBook
• Bernice M. Murphy , 'The Last Broadcast: Christine and Carnival of Souls', Review of Christine (2016), Horror Homeroom, 2017Review
• Bernice M. Murphy, 'Girl Trouble: The Blackcoat's Daughter', Review of The Blackcoat's Daughter, Horror Homeroom, 2017Review
• Bernice M. Murphy, ''Short, Sharp Shocks'', The Stinging Fly Winter 2016-17: Fear and Fantasy Issue, Ireland, 2016, 86 - 89Fiction and creative prose
• Bernice M. Murphy, Good Grief: Bereavement and the Horror Film, 2015, -Miscellaneous
• Bernice M. Murphy, Death on the Roads: Defining the Highway Horror Film, 2017, -Miscellaneous
• Bernice M. Murphy, 'Not a Place Fit for People: Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House', The Irish Times, (November 10th), 2018Review Article
• Bernice M.Murphy, 'Beyond Midsommar: Folk Horror in Popular Fiction', 2019, -Miscellaneous
• 'It is a Wonderful Pleasure to Write to You...' in, editor(s)Laurence J. Hyman , The Letters of Shirley Jackson, New York, Random Houuse, 2021, ppxvii - xxxii, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter
• "Stephen King", Wanda and James Giles, The Dictionary of Literary Biography: American popular fiction writers, 350, BCL, 2009, pp176 - 193, [Bernice M. Murphy]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc
• "You Space Bastard! You Killed my Pines!" Back to The Future, Nostalgia and the Suburban Dream." in, editor(s)Sorcha Ni Fhlainn , It's About Time: Essays on Back to The Future, North Carolina, McFarland, 2010, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter
• "Shaggy Dog Stories: Jonathan Carroll's White Apples as Unconventional After Life Fantasy" in, editor(s)Danel Olson , Twenty-First Century Gothic, Scarecrow Press, 2010, pp584 - 600, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter
• "Who Am I When I Am Transported: Post-Colonialism in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs", Ian MacKean, The Essentials of Modern Literature in English, Post-1914, London, Hodder Arnold, 2004, [Bernice M. Murphy]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc
• "Never Take a Psychic to a Bad Place" The Haunted House in Modern American Fiction in, editor(s)Claire Whitehead , Critical Insights: The Fantastic, EBSCO, 2012, [Bernice Murphy]Book Chapter
• Bernice M. Murphy, "The Dead Arose and Appeared to many": The Unstoppable Rise of Zombie Lit, Trinity Literary Review, 1, (1), 2012, p37 - 43Review Article, URL
• Bernice M. Murphy, Road Trips to the End of the World, 2012, -Miscellaneous
• Bernice M. Murphy, Citadel: Review and Interview with Ciaran Foy., The Green Book: Writings on Irish Gothic, Supernatural and Fantastic Literature, 1, (1), 2013, p82 - 89Review Article
• Beaumont, Charles, The Hunger and Other Stories, 2013, - v-xiiiMiscellaneous
• 'You Mean they Ate Each Other Up?' The Shining as Wendigo Narrative. in, editor(s)Danel Olson , The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film, Centipede Press, 2015, [Bernice M. Murphy]Book Chapter

My research spans three overlapping areas. I am an expert on American writer Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). I edited the first essay collection dedicated to her work (2005); have published numerous book chapters on Jackson, and was academic consultant to The Selected Letters of Shirley Jackson (Penguin Random House, 2021). I have in recent years been working towards making Trinity an internationally recognised centre for Jackson studies. I was awarded a Provost's PhD award for my project, `Shirley Jackson: Beyond Hill House' in 2018, and along with my (then) PhD student Janice Deitner and my colleague Dara Downey, co-organised a successful online symposium dedicated to Jackson in December 2021 and 2022. I also specialise in American horror and Gothic studies and have published four monographs in this area: The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009), The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture (2013), The Highway Horror Film (2014) and The California Gothic in Fiction and Film (2022), which won the 2024 Society for the Study of the American Gothic award for Best Monograph. I have also (with Sorcha Ni Fhlainn) edited the volume Twentieth-Century Gothic (2022). My research output also encompasses Popular Literature as a broader subject area. My textbook Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction was published in 2017 and (with Stephen Matterson) I edited the collection Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction (2018). I am currently co-editing The Cambridge Companion to True Crime with my colleague Clare Clarke, and have just started work on a new, Shirley Jackson-related book. Conferences: I have presented my research at numeous national and international conferences, including numerous International Gothic Association (IGA) biannual conferences; the 2012 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference held in Boston, and the 2019 ASLE conference held at the University of California, Davis. I have given keynote addresses at conferences including the July 2018 IGA, the `Madness in Popular Culture" conference held at Edinburgh University in May 2018, and `Folk Horror in the Twenty-First Century" (Falmouth, UK, September 2019). In November 2024 I was a guest speaker and panellist at the 'Festival de Gènres Fantastàstics de Barcelona'. Publications: Monographs: The California Gothic in Fiction and Film, Edinburgh University Press, submitted. The Highway Horror Film. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Editions: (Academic consultant), The Letters of Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman, Random House: New York, 2021. Edited Collections: (Edited with Sorcha Ni Fhlainn), Twentieth Century Gothic, EUP, 2022. (Edited, with Stephen Matterson), Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. (Editor, with Elizabeth McCarthy), Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic. North Carolina: McFarland, 2016. (Editor, with Elizabeth McCarthy and Darryl Jones) It Came From the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. (Editor) Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, North Carolina: McFarland, 2005. Textbooks: Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

• Title

  Lost Souls: Horror and the Gothic Genres Forgotten and Neglected Personages
  Summary

  Along with Elizabeth McCarthy, I am currently editing this essay collection, which consists of 60 short essays on neglected and forgotten figures who have made an under appreciated contribution to the horror and Gothic genres. The book will be published by McFarland in 2016.
  Date To

  2016
• Title

  The Highway Horror Film
  Summary

  I have recently completed a short monograph for the Palgrave Pivot series. There is an increasing interest in the relationship between space/environment and the individual in relation to horror and gothic studies. I argue that the anxieties articulated in the 'Highway Horror Film' reflect profound unease about the impact that the rapid transformation of American society in the years following World War II had upon both the individual and society at large.
  Date From

  June 2013
  Date To

  December 2013
• Title

  The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness,
  Summary

  This monograph examines the role that rural surroundings/the wilderness play in American Horror and Gothic narratives from the beginning of European settlement to the present day. The book is was published in October 2013.
  Funding Agency

  Trinity Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund
  Date From

  January 2010
  Date To

  April 2013
• Title

  Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction
  Summary

  This short introduction to key concepts and terms within contemporary popular fiction studies for Edinburgh University Press was published in January 2017. The book is particularly targeted at undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Title

  The California Gothic in Fiction and Film
  Summary

  This monograph explores the ways in which the dark side of the 'Golden State' has been depicted in contemporary fiction and film.
  Funding Agency

  TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Programme
  Date From

  2018
  Date To

  2022

Languages and literature,

• IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship October 2006
• Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund, €2,000 awarded towards research costs for 'California Gothic' January 2018
• Elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin April 2017
• Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund, €3,000 awarded towards research costs for 'The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture' ' January 2010
• Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Fellowship (declined in favour of IRCHSS fellowship) May 2006
• Provost's PhD Project Award November 2018
• Trinity College Postgraduate Award 2002, 2003.
• 'Society for the Study of the American Gothic' 2024 Award for Best Scholarly Monograph on the American Gothic 2024

• Member of the International Gothic Association (IGA) Present
• Member of the Irish Association of American Studies (IAAS) Present

• External Examiner for PhD thesis on 'Agricultural Gothic' at Durham University. June 2023
• External Examiner for a PhD on Shirley Jackson at the University of Cardiff. January 2021
• External Examiner for PhD thesis on Shirley Jackson at the University of Montreal. December 2021
• External Examiner for a PhD on the work of horror writer Thomas Ligotti at Manchester Metropolitan University. July 2019
• External examiner for a PhD thesis on Suburban Gothic at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. May 2022
• External Examiner for PhD on American Popular Conspiracy Fiction at Stirling University, Scotland. November 2023