Academic Appointments

Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Communication and Media (2023 -)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, Department of English (2021 - 2023)

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2021)

B.A. First Class Honors, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, CA (2011)

Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Humanities Pathways Course Development (2022) / $4,000

UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship (2019) / $7,000

Amy Elias Founder’s Award (Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present) (2019)

UF Graduate School Fellowship (2014 - 18) / $80,000

Marjorie Kinnan Baskin Rawlings Fellowship (2012 - 14) / 6,000

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship (2012) / $17,500

Publications

Edited Book

William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture. Edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (New American Canon series), 2021.

Edited Journal Issue

“Genres of Empire.” Edited by Alyssa A. Hunziker and Mitch R. Murray. Special double issue, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 50, nos. 2 - 3 (2023).

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Genres of Empire” (with Alyssa A. Hunziker). Introduction to “Genres of Empire,” edited by Alyssa A. Hunziker and Mitch R. Murray. Special issue, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 50, nos. 2 - 3 (2023).

“How to Write a Novel in Imperial Time,” in “Genres of Empire,” edited by Alyssa A. Hunziker and Mitch R. Murray. Special issue, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 50, nos. 2 - 3 (2023).

“David Mitchell’s Storytelling and the Metalife of Utopia.” ASAP/Journal 5, no. 1 (2020): 181–202. https://doi.org/10.1353/asa.2020.0007.

“The Work of Art in the Age of the Superhero.” Science Fiction Film and Television 10, no. 1 (2017): 27–51. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2017.2.

Chapters in Edited Books

“Literature and/as Science Fiction: Woolf, Ishiguro, Chiang. In Teaching Science Fiction in the Literature Classroom, edited by Gerry Canavan. New York: Modern Language Association. (forthcoming)

“Introduction: Periodizing Gibson” (with Mathias Nilges). Introduction to William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, 1–17. Eds. Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021.

Public Scholarship and Writing

“Everything Possible with Everything Given,” Public Books. January 19, 2022.

“Thinking Polyphonically: A Conversation with David Mitchell.” Los Angeles Review of Books. September 11, 2020.

“The Worst of All Possible Worlds?” Public Books. July 20, 2020.

“Paying for the Perks of Preeminence.” Op. Ed. Gainesville Sun. June 15, 2017.

Book Reviews

“On Imagined and Science Fictional Futures.” Review of Four Futures by Peter Frase and Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics by Jens Beckert. Mediations 30, no. 2 (2017).

“Realism, Genre, and the Literary Superhero.” Review of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics by Andrew Hoberek. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 8, no. 3 (2016).

Teaching

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

INQR 1550: Fiction from Film to Internet

LITR 2100: Introduction to Literature

Emory University

ENG388W/ENVS385W: Climate Fiction and Empire

ENG348W: Contemporary Literature: “Literary” Genre Fiction

ENGRD 101: Communicating Climate Change

ENRGD 101: Food Writing and Media sections

ENG 206W: How to Build a World

ENGRD 101: Encountering Writing

University of Florida

IDS 1161: What Is the Good LLif?

ENC 2210: Technical Writing – online

ENC 1145: Why Read Now?

ENG 1131: The Graphic Novel

AML 4453: The Contemporary Multiethnic Novel

AML 2410: Modernism in the Americas

ENG 1131: Writing through Media: Comics Culture

AML 2410: The Artist Novel

AML 2070: Survey of American Literature

ENC 1102: Rhetoric and Academic Research

ENC 3254: Professional CCommunicatin

ENC 1101: Expository and Argumentative Writing

Guest Lectures

“Reading Utopia,” Module of ENG 3010: Theory and Practice of Modern Criticism (University of Florida) (Nov. 4 – 8, 2019)

Public Humanities & Other Forms of Scholarly Productivity

Faculty Development

Piedmont Project, curriculum development in environmental sustainability, Emory University, May 10 – 11, 2023.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Humanities Pathways Workshop, Emory University and Oxford College of Emory University, Aug. 2022 – May 2023.

Events organized as Coordinator for the Working Group for the Study of Critical Theory at the University of Florida (2019 - 2021):

• “The New Era of Little Magazines – Part II.” Workshop with Dan Sinykin, University of Florida.

• “The New Era of Little Magazines – Part I.” Keynote address and workshop with Dan Sinykin, University of Florida.

• “The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.” A Conversation with Michael Rothberg, University of Florida.

• “On the Ethics of Reviewing.” A Conversation with Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida.

• “Post-Apocalyptic Critters: Salvage, Affect, Queer Ontologies.” Keynote address by Sean Grattan. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

Select Presentations

Invited Talks and Keynote Addresses

Keynote address. “All Auto All the Time: Artwork, Art Work, and the University.” Marxism and Neoliberalism Today, Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida, April 10, 2022.

Panels Organized and Chaired

Chair and Organizer. Roundtable: Time, Genre, and the Contemporary Novel. Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 17 – 20, 2018.

Organizer. Panel: Genres of Empire. Marxist Literary Group – Institute on Culture and Society, Albany, NY, Jun. 22 – 26, 2018.

Presentations at Learned Societies

“Literariness and the Recent Graphic Novel.” Seminar: Emerging Sites and Future Forms. American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL, Apr. 8 – 11, 2021.

“Precarity and the Rise of the Graphic Novel.” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, College Park, MD, Oct. 9 – 12, 2019.

“The Wretched of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth: The Desire for Narrative, Theory, and Revolution.” Seminar: N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy, Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, College Park, MD, Oct. 9 – 12, 2019.

“Reinventing the Artist Novel.” Roundtable: Time, Genre, and the Contemporary Novel. Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 17 – 20, 2018.

“Storytelling.” Seminar: Crossing the Literary/Genre Divide, Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 17 – 20, 2018.

“The Wretched of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth.” Genres of Empire. Marxist Literary Group – Institute on Culture and Society, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, Jun. 17 – 22, 2018.

“Science Fiction and the Asian American Artist Novel.” Marxist Literary Group – Institute on Culture and Society, University of California Davis, Jun. 24 – 28, 2017.

“The Reinvention of the Human in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman and Aurora.” Society for Utopian Studies, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 27 – 29, 2016.

“The Work of Art in the Age of the Superhero.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC, Nov. 13 – 15, 2015.

“Value, 10:04, and the Aesthetic Return.” Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, Greenville, SC, Sept. 23 – 27, 2015.

“Experiencing ‘Poetic Possibility’: Autonomy in the University.” Marxist Literary Group – Institute on Culture and Society,” Banff International Research Station, Banff, AB, Jun. 13 – 18, 2014.

“Utopia and China Miéville’s Dial H: Embodying the Future Now.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 19 – 22, 2014.

“Intolerable Utopia.” Society for Utopian Studies, Charleston, SC, Nov. 14 – 17, 2013.

Institutional & Professional Service

Writing Program Assessment Committee, Emory University (2023)

Faculty Advisor, Hybrid Vigor: Interdisciplinary Science Magazine, Emory University (2023)

Hiring Committee, Writing Program Postdoctoral Fellows, Emory University (2022)

Co-chair, Eagle Award for First-Year Writing, Emory University (2021 - 22)

Co-president, Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida (2013 - 18)

Bargaining and Communications Committees, United Faculty of Florida – Graduate Assistants United (2017)

President, English Graduate Organization, University of Florida (2013 - 14)