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Courtney Murray
English Graduate Student
Center for Black Digital Research Scholar
Preferred Pronouns: she/her
3 Burrowes Building, Cubicle G
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Spring 2023 Office Hours
Spring 2023: not teachingEducation
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, English and African American Studies, In Progress
M.A., The Pennsylvania State University, English, 2021
B.A., Emory University, English, concentration in African American Literature (High Honors/magna cum laude) 2018
Professional Bio
Courtney Murray is a Dual-Title PhD student in the Departments of English and African American Studies and a Scholar with the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR) at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on 19th c. African American Diasporic archives and literature and how those texts engage with Black feminisms, space/time, fugitivity, and liberation. At the CBDR, she further expands her research with Black Digital Humanities methods. In addition, she has served on the Colored Convention Project’s Douglass Day Zooniverse crowdsourcing development team, Douglass Day Communication and Outreach committee, and Digital Archives Committee.
Areas of Specialization
African American Literature and Language
18th-19th c. narratives & fiction
Neo-slave narratives
Archival practices and theory
Theory and Cultural Studies
Black existentialism
Ontology
Black feminist praxes of refusal and fugitivity