Emily Murray, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Office Location: 115 Humanities
Office Number: 963-5002
Email: emurray4@tnstate.edu
Scholarly Publications
Accepted. Co-authored with Kyle P. Murray. “Transdisciplinary Team-Teaching at an HBCU: Witchcraft, Religion, and Political Theory in Early Modern Literature” in Transdisciplinarity @ HBCUs: (Re)Writing Black Futures Beyond the Margin, for the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics (JOMR). 2024.
Under Review. “Decolonizing Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Pop Culture and the Classroom: A Transdisciplinary Team-Teaching Approach” for Global Africa: Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies. 2023.
Selected Presentations
Presenter. “Pedagogical Approaches to Examining Social and Cultural Capital and the Stage in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward the II” Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2023.
Presenter. “Decolonizing Shakespeare’s The Tempest: An Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching Approach,” The Annual Africa Conference, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 2023.
Presenter. “Political Theory and Early Modern Texts—Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Undergraduate Course Design at an HBCU: Part II, Curriculum and Criticism.” Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2022.
Presenter. International Writing Center Association, "A Writer, A Poet and an Actor Walk into a Writing Center” IWCA-NCPTW Annual Conference Columbus, Ohio, 2019.
Presenter. “’The Blood Cleaveth to the Ground’: Stains of Status in Arden of Faversham” Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2019.
D2L Conference Tennessee Connection Conference. Avon Williams Campus, Tennessee State University, Nashville TN, 2019.
Academic Service
Chair of the Recruitment and Retention Committee
English Online Program Committee
Faculty advisor for English Student Organization and Words of Worth Literary Arts Journal
Past advisor for Words of Worth Literary Club and Sigma Tau Delta.
Library Committee
Faculty representative Library Book Club, Next Chapter
Faculty Salary Survey Committee