Dana Murphy
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English
Profile
On leave academic year 2024–25.
Dana Murphy (she/her) is an academic and writer of creative and literary-critical works that endeavor to practice care within critical and liberative contexts. Her academic essays appear in African American Review, The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, CLA Journal, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. Her book on Phillis Wheatley's work and legacy is under contract with Duke University Press.
Murphy teaches first-year humanities courses on modern and contemporary multicultural and multiethnic literatures and cultures, and advanced humanities courses on global and international literatures and cultures of diaspora and of speculative futures.
- Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University, 2024–25
- Appreciation Award, Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID), Caltech, 2024
- Co-Book Review Editor, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience
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Selected Publications
Academic Essays
"Imagining Black Steminist Care: Nnedi Okorafor's Binti." In "Black Women's Contemporary Speculative Fiction," edited by Susana M. Morris and Michelle M. Wright. Special issue, The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 54, no. 2 (2024): 58–69.
"‘She Will Remember Everything': Black Diasporic Feminist Healing Roots in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban." Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 12, no. 2 (2023): 5–27.
"Praisesong for Margaret Walker's Jubilee and the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival." African American Review 53, no. 4 (2020): 299–313.
"Black Feminist Hoodoo: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo." In "‘sing a black girl's song…sing a song of her life': Ntozake Shange," edited by Trimiko Melancon. Special issue, CLA Journal 62, no. 2 (2019): 178–92.