Rate My Professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy

Thorne-Murphy's research examines the relationship between Victorian social reform fiction and philanthropic innovation, including charity bazaars, women's civil society, and narrative prose genres from Victorian periodical publication. Major publications include her monograph Bazaar Literature: Charity, Advocacy, and Parody in Victorian Social Reform Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2022) and the co-edited collection Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920 (Indiana University Press, 2017) with Frank Q. Christianson. Selected articles are “Experiential Learning and the Value of Novice Scholars: Victorian Short Fiction and the Periodical Market” (Victorian Periodicals Review, forthcoming 2024), “Re-Authorship: Authoring, Editing, and Coauthoring the Transatlantic Publications of Charlotte M. Yonge’s Aunt Charlotte’s Stories of Bible History” (Book History, 2010), “The Charity Bazaar and Female Professionalization in Charlotte M. Yonge’s The Daisy Chain” (SEL: Studies in English Literature, 2007), and “Prostitute-Rescue, Rape, and Poetic Inspiration in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh” (Women’s Writing, 2005). She has received the Humanities Center One Year Fellowship (2018), Douglas K. Christensen Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship (2012-2015), Department of English Teaching Award (2011-2012), and several travel and research grants. Service includes Associate Chair of English (2012-2017), Director of study abroad programs such as London Centre (2022) and British Literature and Landscape (2019), and membership on university councils. Ongoing projects encompass the Victorian Short Fiction Project as Executive Editor and an anthology of nineteenth-century children’s literature of faith. Public lectures include “Christmas Ghost Stories: A Victorian Tradition” (Salt Lake County Library, 2022).