'To Be a Walking Cabinet: Alice Walker, Feminist Methods of Recovery, and Critical Bibliography' with Fallon Murphy (Boston University)

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Fallon Murphy is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Boston University. Her dissertation charts how African American writers, such as Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and members of the poetry collective, the Dark Room Collective, sought, preserved, and reimagined institutional archives and its absences as poetic and rhetorical strategies. 

Her research is supported by a research fellowship at Emory University. She has a chapter forthcoming in the book Faulknerian Anniversaries (2026), University of Mississippi Press. 

Her work in the digital humanities is recognized by the MLA’s Public Humanities Incubator program in 2022, and she is currently an Editorial Fellow for the digital humanities project, “Sharing Our Stories from 1977” at the University of Houston. She is 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.