Welcome! My name is Fallon Murphy, and I am a scholar, teacher, and writer living in Boston.

I am a Phd Candidate and Writing Fellow at Boston University with a dissertation that charts how African American writers, such as Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and members of the Cambridge-based Dark Room Collective, 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.

I have a chapter forthcoming in the book Faulknerian Anniversaries (2026), published by the University of Mississippi Press, and have published or will publish in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Reviews in Digital Humanities, The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, and Boston Art Review.

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 and an Editorial Fellow 2025-2026 for the digital humanities project Sharing Our Stories from 1977. 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.

When not teaching or researching, I enjoy taking very long walks, cooking elaborate meals, and spending time with my family.