{"id":345,"date":"2009-06-30T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:14:14","slug":"murray-julie","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/murray-julie\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eighteenth-century British literature and culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>British Romanticism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Literary Theory\/Cultural Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Book History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theories and Histories of Modernity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Literature and Critical Human Rights\/Humanitarianism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feminist Theory and Gender Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Against-Modernity-Julie-Murray.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27615\" style=\"width:169px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Against-Modernity-Julie-Murray.jpg 580w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Against-Modernity-Julie-Murray-512x763.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Mary-Wollstonecraft-Against-Modernity-Julie-Murray-320x477.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My current research interests are in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century British literature and culture with a focus on feminism and histories and theories of modernity. My forthcoming book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/literary-studies-and-literature\/mary-wollstonecraft-against-modernity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity<\/a><\/em> (2026), argues that Western feminism and global modernity have been on a collision course for over two centuries, and that Mary Wollstonecraft is simultaneously one of their unlikeliest and most bracing critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current research project, \u201cA Literary History of Women-as-Index,\u201d is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant. I explore what it means for women to be an \u201cindex\u201d of modernity. Where does the concept of \u201cwomen-as-index\u201d come from? In historical terms, women-as-index originated in the late-18thC by Scottish Enlightenment historians who argued that men\u2019s \u201chumane\u201d treatment of women was an index of a society\u2019s relative \u201cprogress.\u201d The project traces women-as-index from this late 18th-C start through to its 21st-C iterations in institutions such as the UN Development Programme, which uses the metric of women-as-index in its formulations about social, global economic, and gendered inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, I co-organized with Lauren Gillingham (University of Ottawa) the 25th meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) on the topic of \u201cRomantic Life.\u201d Papers from the conference were published in the conference volume of <em>European Romantic Review<\/em> 29.3 (June 2018): 271-430.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I welcome inquiries from graduate students interested in working on any aspect of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture; eighteenth and nineteenth-century histories of the book; histories of feeling and emotion; feminism and gender studies; humanitarianism and literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"recent-honours-and-awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Honours and Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SSHRC Insight Development Grant, \u201cA Literary History of Women-as-Index\u201d (2023-26)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019-20 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>(co-applicant) SSHRC Insight Development Grant, \u201cFeeling Life: Biopolitics, Literature, and Humanitarian Sentimentality\u201d (2016-19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC 4A Research Grant, 2014, 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nominee, 2013 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carleton University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Junior Faculty Research Award, 2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chawton House Library Fellow, May 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/literary-studies-and-literature\/mary-wollstonecraft-against-modernity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity<\/a><\/em>. Stanford University Press. Forthcoming, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"edited-volumes\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Edited Volumes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/10509585.2018.1465702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romantic Life.<\/a>\u201d NASSR conference issue co-edited with Lauren Gillingham. <em>European Romantic Review<\/em>. 29.3 (June 2018): 271-430.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"selected-articles-and-book-chapters\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Articles and Book Chapters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Six entries in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/cambridge-introduction-to-the-eighteenthcentury-novel\/616824122F351BC061CB22AF3FDFF83C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820<\/a><\/em>. Ed. April London. \u201c<em>Memoirs of Female Philosophers\u2026By a Modern Philosopher of the Other Sex (1808); The Empire of the Nairs: Or, Rights of Women. An Utopian Romance (1811); Marian (1812); The Heart and the Fancy, Or, Valsinore. A Tale (1813); Gulzara, Princess of Persia; Or, The Virgin Queen (1816); The Royal Wanderer, Or The Exile of England (1815).<\/em>\u201d Cambridge UP. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/cambridge-companion-to-eighteenthcentury-thought\/sensibility-passion-emotion-affect\/15E3654E95DCC5DDDB7AAD7C24BF71D8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sensibility: passion, emotion, affect.<\/a>\u201d <em>The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought<\/em>. Ed. Frans De Bruyn. Cambridge UP, 2021. 227-247.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/mary-wollstonecraft-in-context\/1970s-critical-reception\/D234808205AE8DF2E3DCCDBA4C443472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1970s Critical Reception.<\/a>\u201d <em>Mary Wollstonecraft in Context<\/em>. Eds. Nancy E. Johnson and Paul Keen. Cambridge UP, 2020. 57-63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/romantic-circles.org\/praxis\/wollstonecraft\/praxis.2019.wollstonecraft.murray.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Wollstonecraft, Feminist Killjoy.<\/a>\u201d <em>Romantic Circles, Praxis Series<\/em>. \u201cMary Wollstonecraft Even Now.\u201d Ed. Sonia Hofkosh. October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09699082.2016.1159028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mary Wollstonecraft and Modernity.<\/a>\u201d <em>Women\u2019s Writing<\/em> 23.3 (July 2016): 366-77. (Special Issue: Festschrift in honour of Professor Janet Todd: \u201cA Life in Feminist Scholarship\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Country and the City and the Colony in <em>The Woman of Colour<\/em>.\u201d <em>LUMEN<\/em>. Vol. 33 (2014): 87-99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/pdf\/30053748.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Company Rules: Burke, Hastings, and the Specter of the Modern Liberal State.<\/a>\u201d <em>Eighteenth-Century Studies<\/em> 41.1 (2007): 55-69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/pdf\/30029912.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Governing Economic Man: Joanna Baillie\u2019s Theatre of Utility.<\/a>\u201d <em>ELH (English Literary History)<\/em> 70.4 (2003): 1043-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"recent-presentations\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Presentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cModern Traditional: Tradwives and the Paradox of Womanhood.\u201d American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Online Conference. April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVirginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Female Biography.\u201d American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Toronto, April 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTowards a Literary History of Women-as-Index.\u201d Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Montreal, October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFeminism Against Modernity.\u201d Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Ottawa, October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMary Wollstonecraft Among the Anthropologists.\u201d Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Winnipeg (online conference), October, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFeminist Historiography\u2019s Stadialism.\u201d International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Edinburgh, July 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMary Wollstonecraft and Presentism.\u201d North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Chicago, August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"recent-graduate-courses\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Graduate Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ENGL 6003: What is a Book?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENGL 5402: \u201cBeing Human\u201d in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ENGL 5408: Romanticism and Human Rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"graduate-supervisions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Supervisions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"doctoral\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doctoral<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana Mitchell. \u201cLoving Keats: Gender, Affect, and Romantic Receptions.\u201d In progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma Peacocke. \u201cPublic Museums and British Romanticism.\u201d (Defended April 2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"masters\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Masters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>(Co-supervisor) Ingrid Reiche. \u201cA Digital Edition of A General History of the Pyrates.\u201d (Defended April 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26642,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Julie","cu_people_last_name":"Murray","cu_people_initials":"JM","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-345","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Queen\u2019s University), M.A. (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (York University)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"julie.murray@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27617,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/345\/revisions\/27617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}