Welcome! My name is Fallon Murphy.

I am a PhD Candidate at Boston University with a dissertation that charts how Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, 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, and I am currently the Donald C. Gallup Fellow of American Literature at Yale University. 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.

The exhibition I guest curated on the poet Nikki Giovanni, “Poetry is a Culture of a People” was featured in WBUR. 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.