Dana Murphy
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English
Profile
Dana Murphy (she/her) conducts research on creative, cultural, and literary works that endeavor to practice care within critical and liberative contexts. She has published or has forthcoming essays in African American Review, The Black Scholar, CLA Journal, and Palimpsest. Her book on Phillis Wheatley's work and legacy is under contract with Duke University Press.
- Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University, 2024–25
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Essays
"Imagining Black Steminist Care: Nnedi Okorafor's Binti." Black Women's Contemporary Speculative Fiction, special issue of The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, vol. 54, no. 2, 2024, forthcoming.
"‘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, vol. 12, no. 2, 2023, pp. 5–27.
"Praisesong for Margaret Walker's Jubilee and the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival." African American Review, vol. 53, no. 4, 2020, pp. 299–313.
"Black Feminist Hoodoo: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo." "sing a black girl's song…sing a song of her life": Ntozake Shange, special issue of CLA Journal, vol. 62, no. 2, 2019, pp. 178–92.