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Susan Murray

Susan Murray

Faculty Fellow

Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Susan Murray is Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication with research and teaching interests in the areas of visual culture, screen studies, media theory and social and industrial histories of American media. She is the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (Routledge, 2005) and a co-editor, with Laurie Ouellette, of two editions of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (NYU Press, 2004; 2009). She is currently working on history of color television from the late 1920s through the 1960s—a book project under contract with Duke University Press—and has been awarded an ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year.