Katherine Murray
Writer, Educator, Editor
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
2010-2014
B.A. English
Minor in Film, Television, and Digital Media
University of California, San Diego
2017-2020
M.A. Literature
Specialization in Critical Gender Studies
Emerson College
2024-2026
M.F.A. Popular Fiction and Publishing
BIO
Katherine Murray is a California native, full of kale and iced coffee. She worked in television development for three years before grad school and taught at UC San Diego for five years.
Katherine has always worked several concurrent jobs, serving as a teacher, tutor, story group manager, researcher, curriculum developer, and freelance writer and editor.
Her favorite experiences include studying at Oxford, walking the trail to Mordor in New Zealand, and working as an au pair in Spain. She is now visiting as many National Parks as she can.
SAMPLES OF FICTION
SAMPLES OF ACADEMIC WRITING
CLASSES TAUGHT
As an adjunct instructor at UC San Diego:
- Critical Gender Studies 106: “Gender and the Law”
- Literature 124: “Here There Be Monsters: Mapping Masculinity”
- Literature 159: “The Politics of Queerness”
- Muir College Writing 40: “Geographies of Environmental Racism”
As an adjunct at Orange Coast College:
- English 100: Freshman Composition
As a K-12 instructor:
- SAT prep
- ACT prep
- 5th grade Reading
- 5th grade Language Arts
- 7th grade Rhetoric
- “Reading Harry Potter Like English Majors”
- “Learning Rhetoric through The Office”
- “The History of Baseball”
As a teaching assistant at UC San Diego:
- Humanities 1: “The Foundations of Western Civilization: Israel and Greece”
- Humanities 2: “Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages”
- Humanities 3: “Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern Europe”
- Humanities 4: “Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution”
- Humanities 5: “Modern Culture (1848–Present)”
- Literature 21: “Introduction to the Literature of the British Isles: Pre-1660”
- Literature 22: “Introduction to the Literature of the British Isles: 1660–1832"
- Literature 23: “Introduction to the Literature of the British Isles: 1832–Present”
- Muir College Writing 40: “Aspects of Abolition”
- Muir College Writing 40: “Geographies of Environmental Racism”
As an undergrad at UCLA:
- “Growing Up in the South: 20th Century Southern Bildungsromans”
SAMPLE OF ARTICLES
Katherine has written extensively about gender, domestic violence, reproductive justice, sports, and pop culture.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
“Female Millennial Rage: The Weaponization of Cottagecore” (April 2024)
Fuck the Patriarchy: A Taylor Swift Conference. University of Kent (online)
“Gendered Spectatorship in The National Police Gazette” (Nov. 2022)
30th Annual Symposium on the 19th C Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (online)
“‘Not Like Other Girls’: Confronting the Crisis of Masculinity” (Sept. 2022)
Women and Comedy 1890-1950 Conference. Elizabeth von Arnim Society (online)
“Cyborg Pedagogy: Transformations of the Child-Student” (June 2022)
Child of the Future Conference. University of Cambridge (online)
“Gendered Spectatorship in Baseball Songs” (March 2021)
NINE Baseball Conference (online)
Spotlight speaker (Oct. 2020)
UCLA Writers Den (online)
“Gendered Spectatorship in The National Police Gazette” (March 2020)
NINE Baseball Conference. Tempe, AZ
“The Emergence of the Victorian Tomboy” (Nov. 2019)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association. San Diego, CA
“Nineteenth-Century Tomboys and the Influence of British Girls on American Baseball” (June 2019)
Society for American Baseball Research Conference. San Diego, CA
“Maggie Tulliver and the Emergence of the Victorian Tomboy” (June 2019)
Children’s Literature Association Conference. Indianapolis, IN
“Life Beyond English” (May 2019)
UCLA English Department. Los Angeles, CA
“Gendered Baseball Spectatorship in The National Police Gazette” (May 2019)
UC Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference. Palo Alto, CA
“Nineteenth-Century Tomboys and the Influence of British Girls on American Baseball” (April 2019)
Fredrick Ivor-Campbell Conference. Cooperstown, NY
“Portals to Fantasy: Escape from Trauma” (April 2019)
UCSD’s First Annual Graduate Student Conference. La Jolla, CA
Publishing Panel (March 2019)
National Sigma Tau Delta Conference. St. Louis, MO
“Language Games and Untranslatability in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (March 2019)
National Sigma Tau Delta Conference. St. Louis, MO
“Cross-Cultural Capitalism and the Implications of Spalding’s Baseball Tour” (March 2019)
Southwest English Symposium. Arizona State University
“Nineteenth-Century Tomboys and the Influence of British Girls on American Baseball” (Jan. 2019)
Society for American Baseball Research. San Diego, CA
“Language Games and Untranslatability in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Dec. 2018)
“Migratory Poetics: Literature, Theory and Visual Cultures in Translation” Conference. University of California, Irvine
“Victorian Tomboys and the Influence of British Girls on American Baseball” (Nov. 2018)
Postdoctoral Research Symposium. University of California, San Diego
“The Unreliable Narration and Selective Memories of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” (Oct. 2018)
Memory through the Screen: Polish Cinema and WWII Conference. University of Southern California
“Language Games and Untranslatability in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (Sept. 2018)
Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students Conference. University of Texas at Austin
Publishing panel (March 2015)
National Sigma Tau Delta Conference. Albuquerque, NM
“Amputation, Dismemberment, and Decapitation in Mrs. Dalloway” (March 2014)
Sigma Tau Delta Conference. California State University Northridge
“Amputation, Dismemberment, and Decapitation in Mrs. Dalloway” (Feb. 2014)
National Sigma Tau Delta Conference. Savannah, GA
Short stories panel, Honorable Mention winner (April 2013)
Eaton Science Fiction Conference. Riverside, CA
“An Epic Bromance: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Inklings” (Feb. 2013)
Academic Conference for English Students. University of California, Los Angeles
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