Leslee Thorne-Murphy

I’m pleased to accept a nomination, and, if elected, would look forward to serving within an organization that I’ve valued greatly for rigorous academic engagement combined with very warm collegiality. My current work in periodical studies involves re-envisioning literary realism through short-run philanthropic journals and tracing the development of short fiction in the periodical market. My students have been valued collaborators in this work; they edit a digital anthology titled The Victorian Short Fiction Project. I teach in the Department of English and serve as associate dean in the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University.