Dr Simone Murray - Researcher Profile

Biography

I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Queensland (1992) before gaining first-class Honours in English also at The University of Queensland (1994). Under the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme, I undertook a PhD in English Language and Literature at University College London (1999). My doctoral thesis examined the contemporary UK book publishing industry and its role in gradually mainstreaming feminist ideas. Upon my return to Australia I worked in academic publishing before taking up an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of School of English, Media Studies and Art History at The University of Queensland (2001-03), and subsequently a Lectureship in School of English, Art History, Film & Media at The University of Sydney (2004). I took up a continuing Lectureship in the Communications and Media Studies program at Monash in 2005 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008. From mid-2009 I have also been Director of Monash University’s Centre for the Book.

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

ENGLISH

Institution: University College London

Year awarded: 1999

Publications

Books

Murray, S., 2012, The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation, Routledge, New York US.

Murray, S.E., 2004, Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics, Pluto Press, London UK.

Book Chapters

Murray, S.E., 2012, The business of adaptation: Reading the market, in A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation, eds Deborah Cartmell, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester West Sussex UK, pp. 122-139.

Murray, S.E., 2012, Where did your adaptation begin?: Book fairs, screen festivals and writers' weeks as engine-rooms of adaptation, in Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film and the Arts, eds Pascal Nicklas and Oliver Linder, De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 57-69.

Murray, S.E., 2008, Feminist print cultures in the digital era, in Feminist Interventions in International Communication: Minding the Gap, eds Katharine Sarikakis and Leslie Regan Shade, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Maryland USA, pp. 259-275.

Murray, S.E., 2007, Generating Content: Book Publishing as a Component Media Industry, in Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing, eds David Carter and Anne Galligan, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, pp. 51-67.

Murray, S.E., 2006, Content streaming, in Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005, eds Craig Munro and Robyn Sheahan-Bright, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 126-131.

Murray, S.E., 2000, Live Authors, Live Issues: Dilemmas of Race and Authenticity in Feminist Publishing, in Alternative Library Literature, 1998/1999: A Biennial Anthology, eds Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., pp. 42-56.

Journal Articles

Murray, S., 2010, 'Remix my lit': towards an open access literary culture, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technology [P], vol 16, issue 1, Sage Publications, United Kingdom, pp. 23-38.

Murray, S.E., 2009, Servicing 'self-scheduling consumers': public broadcasters and audio podcasting, Global Media and Communication [P], vol 5, issue 2, SAGE Publications, London, United Kingdom, pp. 197-219.

Murray, S.E., 2008, Materializing adaptation theory: The adaptation industry, Literature/Film Quarterly, vol 36, issue 1, Salisbury State University, Salisbury Maryland USA, pp. 4-20.

Murray, S.E., 2008, Phantom adaptations: Eucalyptus, the adaptation industry and the film that never was, Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies, vol 1, issue 1, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 5-23.

Murray, S.E., 2007, Books as Media: Tha Adaptation Industry, International Journal of the Book, vol 4, issue 2, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 23-30.

Murray, S.E., 2007, Publishing Studies: Critically Mapping Research in Search of a Discipline, Publishing Research Quarterly, vol 22, issue 4, Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Piscataway, New Jersey, pp. 3-25.

Murray, S.E., 2007, Rights Culture: Authors, Publishers and the Digital Domain, Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture, vol 40, issue 1, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 5-24.

Murray, S.E., 2006, Designing communication honours curricula: theory and practice in Australian higher education, Australian Journal of Communication, vol 33, issue 1, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 91-104.

Murray, S.E., 2005, Brand loyalties: rethinking content within global corporate media, Media, Culture & Society, vol 27, issue 3, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 415-435.

Murray, S.E., 2005, Think global, act global: corporate content streaming and Australian media policy, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, vol 116, issue August, University of Queensland, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 100-116.

Murray, S.E., 2004, Celebrating the Story the Way It Is: Cultural Studies, Corporate Media and the Contested Utility of Fandom, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 18, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 7-25.

Murray, S.E., 2004, The Cuala Press: Women, Publishing and the Conflicted Genealogies of 'Feminist Publishing', Women Studies International Forum, vol 27, issue 5, Pergamon, UK, pp. 489-506.

Murray, S.E., 2003, A book that will be read as long as films are seen: book-to-screen literary adaptions and the content economy, Proceedings of the Book Conference 2003 (in print and online formats): International Journal of the Book, Vol 1, vol 1, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 329-335.

Murray, S.E., 2003, Media Convergence's Third Wave: Content Streaming, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol 9, issue 1, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 8-18.

Murray, S.E., 2002, Harry Potter, Inc: Content Recycling for Corporate Synergy, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 'Loop' issue, vol 5, issue 4, University of Queensland Media and Culture Centre, Brisbane Australia, pp. 1-5.

Murray, S.E., Morris, S., Roscoe, J., 2002, Women in/and Media Today, Hecate, vol 28, issue 2, Hecate Press, Brisbane Australia, pp. 126-144.

Murray, S.E., 2000, Deeds and Words: The Women's Press and the Politics of Print, Women: A Cultural Review, vol 11, issue 3, Routledge, London UK, pp. 197-222.

Murray, S.E., 2000, One is not born, but becomes a bestseller: the publishing politics of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Hecate, vol 26, issue 1, Hecate Press, Brisbane Australia, pp. 144-160.

Other

Murray, S.E., 2002, Cultural Economy: Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life, by Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke (eds), Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, vol August, issue 116, Sage Publications, London UK, pp. 119-120.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The ghost who walks: A cultral history of the phantom comic book in Australia, India and Sweden.

Supervisors:

Murray, S (Main), Ruddock, A (Associate).