Courtney Murray
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Fall 2023 Office Hours
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Professional Bio
Courtney Murray is a Dual-Title PhD Candidate in the Departments of English and African American Studies and a #DigBlk Scholar at the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR). 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 works on the Communication Committee for Douglass Day and serves in various research roles for the Colored Conventions Project. She has published work in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and Startwords.
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