Dana Murphy
Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English
Profile
Dana Murphy (she/her) is a writer and academic living in Los Angeles/Gabrieleno Tongva lands, where she was born. She conducts research on and teaches creative, cultural, and literary-critical-theoretical works that endeavor to practice care within critical and liberative contexts. She has published or has forthcoming essays in journals of Black studies including 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.
At Caltech, Murphy teaches first-year humanities courses on modern and contemporary multicultural and multiethnic literatures and cultures written in or translated into English, as well as advanced humanities courses on global and international literatures and cultures of diasporas and literatures and cultures of speculative futures.
- Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship, Stanford University, 2024–25
- Co-Book Review Editor, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience
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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.