Adjunct Instructor
Year Started at JMU: 2022
murphyjy@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Education
M.A., English (areas of specialization—British & American Renaissance Literature), The Catholic University of America, 2007
M.A., Applied Linguistics (areas of specialization—The Theory & Practice of Translation/Interpretation & TEFL/TESL), Moscow State Linguistic University, 2000
B.S. and MPharm, Pharmacy, First Moscow State Medical University, 1993
Professional Focuses
First-year writing, rhetorical reading and writing, literature and composition, literature and feminist approaches to the study of literature, poetry and poetics, intercultural communication, and TESL/TEFL.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Writing as Julia Murphey
Anthologized Poems
"Stability in Instability." Remembering Sylvia Plath, edited by Helen Zeidman, Moonstone Press, 2023, p. 41.
"Spring," "Music of the Spheres," "Rain," "Rashness," and "Salutation." An Annual Anthology for International Haiku Day, edited by Helen Zeidman, Moonstone Press, 2023, p. 56.
Selected Poems
"A Riddle." 2024. The Dirigible Balloon, https://dirigibleballoon.org/poem/A-Riddle.
"A Double-Edged Sword." The Lyric Magazine, vol. 103, no. 2, May 2023, p. 68.
"Common Riches." Better Than Starbucks, vol. VII, no. II, May 2022, p. 82.
Presentations
"Stability in Instability." 60th Anniversary Tribute: Remembering Sylvia Plath, 29 Oct 2023, Moonstone Press, PA. Virtual Poetry Reading.
"Spring," "Music of the Spheres," "Rain," "Rashness," and "Salutation." International Haiku Day 2023, 23 April, 2023, Moonstone Press, PA. Virtual Poetry Reading.
“Walt Whitman’s Concept of the Body.” The Body Electric Conference, 3 March 2012, The University of Maryland, MD.
