Rate My Professor Simone Murray

Murray’s expertise spans literary studies, media and communication studies, and gender theory, with active research in print culture, publishing studies and book history; digital literary studies, literary media studies and the digital humanities; cross-media adaptation; and women’s writing and feminist literary theory. Her key publications include The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies (Oxford University Press, 2025), The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation (Routledge, 2012), Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2004, winner of the 2005 SHARP DeLong Book Prize), and An Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture (2020). As Primary Chief Investigator, she led Australian Research Council projects on Performing Authorship in the Digital Literary Sphere (2012-2017) and Books as Media: The Cultural Economy of Literary Adaptation (2007-2009). Her honors include election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2019, second prize in the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019, the International Award for Excellence in the Development of the Book in 2006, and the University Medal in English from The University of Queensland in 1995. She accepts PhD students and has supervised several successful higher degree completions, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals 5 (Gender Equality) and 13 (Climate Action).