Welcome! My name is Fallon Murphy.

I am a PhD Candidate and Dissertation Fellow at Boston University with a dissertation that charts how Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Alice Walker sought, preserved, and reimagined institutional archives and its absences as poetic and rhetorical strategies. My dissertation research has been supported by a Leonard and Louise Riggio Fellowship 2025-2026 at Emory University. From 2026 to 2027, I will be the Donald C. Gallup Fellow of American Literature. I have taught courses in the Writing Program on African American literature and memoir.

I have book chapters forthcoming in Faulknerian Anniversaries (2026) with the University of Mississippi Press and the Routledge Companion to Textual Scholarship (2028). I also have an article in review with Digital Humanities Quarterly. I have published in Reviews in Digital Humanities, The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, and Boston Art Review.

I am currently curating an exhibition that celebrates the opening of Nikki Giovanni’s papers. I have also worked at the Houghton at Harvard University, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Center for Creative of Photography at the University of Arizona, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

I enjoy collaborating with many digital humanists on pedagogical projects. My work in the digital humanities is recognized by the MLA’s Public Humanities Incubator program in 2022. Currently, I am a Showcase Editor for the NEH-funded feminist digital humanities project Recovery Hub for American Women Writers . I am also a Digital Content Editor for the open-access digital publication Insurrect!: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies, which centers on Black and Indigenous liberation frameworks in American Studies.