Jessica Murphy

Having taught at Vanier College, Dawson College, and Université de Montréal in Montréal, Qc, Canada in the past, Jessica Murphy, Ph.D. currently lives in Reykjavík, Iceland and teaches English literature at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands). Her areas of interest and expertise are Victorian and Romantic literature as well as detective novels, gothic fiction, and children's literature. In addition to publishing a novella entitled *Wishbone* (available on Amazon) and having her poetry published in an anthology featuring the works of poets from around the world entitled *Words Apart: A Globe of Poetry*, she has co-authored an epistolary novella, *Moss and Rose* and a collection of gothic short stories, *Ossa Vivi*, with Mae Kellert. Her scholarly publications include “‘[T]he world’s a beast, and I hate it!’: Naturalism in Amy Levy’s *The Romance of a Shop*” and an article on Arnold Bennett’s *The Old Wives’ Tale*. At present, she is working on a chapter on the double in Susanna Kaysen’s *Girl, Interrupted* that will be included in a book, published by Routledge, featuring various essays on the doppelgänger. A cat lover and an avid Ashtangi, she has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for the last seven years.