Dana Murphy
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2011; M.A., University of California, Irvine, 2015; Ph.D., 2018. Caltech, 2021-.
Profile
On research leave 2025–26.
Professor Dana Murphy is a critic and writer. Murphy's first book, Foremother Love: Phillis Wheatley and Black Feminist Criticism, is available from Duke University Press on July 31, 2025. You may learn about her latest research and writing at foremotherlove.com.
Research Summary
Black Study; Expressive Culture; Literature in English or English Translation; Poetry and Poetics; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Feminist Science and Technology Studies
Selected Awards
- External Faculty Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2024–25
- Appreciation Award, Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CCID), Caltech, 2024
External Affiliations
- Editorial Board Member, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience