Dana Murphy (she/her) is a scholar of interdisciplinary Black studies, specializing in feminisms, literary criticism, and studies of diaspora. Murphy primarily conducts research on literature and literary archives pertinent to Black lives, especially works which emphasize practices of care in feminist and queer communities from the eighteenth century to today.
Murphy has published scholarly essays in African American Review and CLA Journal. She is currently writing a book inspired by Phillis Wheatley.
At Caltech, Murphy teaches courses on Black expressive culture in English or English translation together with scholarship in studies of difference and justice across humanistic disciplines. Previously, she taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
She holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine.
Research Summary
Black Studies; Black Diasporic Literature in English; Black Feminisms; Black Latinidades and Black Latinx Studies; Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Poetry and Poetics
