Mollie Murphy

Biography

Mollie specializes in rhetorical criticism and theory. Her research focuses most heavily on examining how (and to what end) advocates for environmental and social justice navigate rhetorical challenges. Her work has been published in Women’s Studies in Communication, the Western Journal of Communication, Argumentation and Advocacy, Frontiers in Communication, the Southern Communication Journal, and elsewhere. Mollie’s essay forthcoming in the Western Journal of Communication forwards the concept of sublime wonder to rethink the sublime as a widely accessible means of engaging the more-than-human world; sublime wonder thus challenges hierarchical distinctions between the beautiful and sublime and between domestic spheres and “wilderness.”