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Emily Murray, PhD | Faculty | Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Assistant Professor of EnglishEmily Murray, PhD

Office Address: 310 Jackson
Phone: 615-963-5002
Email: emurray4@tnstate.edu

  • 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.
  • 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 Off-Campus Instructional Site, Tennessee State University, Nashville TN, 2019.
  • 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